Austrian president Alexander van der Bellen and head of the People's Party Sebastian Kurz shake hands during the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Vienna, December 18, 2017 REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Hundreds of police sealed off part of central Vienna on Monday as Austria became the only western European country with a far-right party in power, but protests against the swearing-in proved small and largely peaceful.
Conservative Sebastian Kurz, who is just 31, became chancellor in a coalition with the far right two months after winning a parliamentary election with a hard line on immigration after Austria was swept up in Europe's refugee crisis in 2015.
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