Top candidate and head of far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache attends his party meeting after Austria's general election in Vienna, Austria, October 15, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Seventeen winters ago, the European Union offered a very cold shoulder to a chancellor who brought Austria's far right into government, and some EU leaders even spoke of boycotting Tyrolean ski resorts in protest.
On Monday, the strong chance Sebastian Kurz's centre-right will invite the Freedom Party back into a Vienna coalition raised barely a murmur in Brussels. That said something about how the FPO has moved from its neo-Nazi past and a lot about how the rest of Europe has shifted rightward, especially on immigration.
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