Factbox - Key policies of Austria's conservative/far-right coalition


  • World
  • Monday, 18 Dec 2017

VIENNA (Reuters) - Ministers from Austria's main conservative People's Party (OVP) and the anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) were sworn in on Monday, making it the only western European country with a far-right component in its governing coalition.

Below are some of the policies that new chancellor Sebastian Kurz's OVP and Heinz-Christian Strache's FPO have already agreed on.

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