Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl and EU Minister Gernot Bluemel attend a news conference in Vienna, Austria March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's president has demanded explanations over police raids targeting offices and staff of the main domestic intelligence service, in a case that has stoked concerns about the far right's control of the Interior Ministry.
The anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO), junior partner in the coalition government led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservatives, controls the interior, foreign and defence ministries. That has prompted its opponents to question how it will handle the sensitive information those departments possess.
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