Sebastian Kurz

 Austria's conservatives and right-wing populists on Friday agreed to form a coalition government nearly seven weeks after the October 15 election, Deutsche Welle reports. 

People's Party (ÖVP) leader Sebastian Kurz will become the next chancellor and Freedom Party (FPÖ) head Heinz-Christian Strache will become vice-chancellor.

 Two months after the election, 31-year-old conservative People's Party (OVP) leader Sebastian Kurz is expected to finalise coalition talks on Friday and form a new government with the hard-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) led by Heinz-Christian Strache, reported EUObserver .

31-year-old Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, a rising star of the conservative People's Party, is about to become Austria's next chancellor, according to the first forecast after today's parliamentary elections.

Kurtz will be the youngest leader in Europe, the youngest chancellor in the new history of Austria, and only the third Christian Democrat in this post.

The conservative party that 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz has reshaped in his own image finished first in Austria's national vote.

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The conservative People’s Party (OVP), led by 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, is projected to finish first in Austria’s snap parliamentary election, according to exit polls that suggest a clear shift to the right.

The latest forecasts showed centre-right OVP holding onto first place, winning 31.5 percent of Sunday’s vote.

VIENNA - There is no particular use in comparing Kosovo to Catalonia, and Belgrade's dialogue with Pristina must be continued as progress in that dialogue is of great significance for Serbia's EU path, says Austrian FM Sebastian Kurz.

"I see no added value in comparing the situation concerning Catalonia to that in Kosovo," Kurz told Tanjug in an interview.

The far right Freedom Party (FPO), set to become kingmaker after elections on Oct. 15, wants Austria to join the Visegrad Group of central and east European states opposed to immigration, Reuters reported. 

Turkey's European Union Minister Ömer Çelik accused German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Aug. 23 of "copying the far-right and racists" through his statements in the ongoing diplomatic row between Ankara and Berlin.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called on the EU "to bring the Balkans into its orbit."

In an interview for Germany's Handelsblatt, quoted by Tanjug, Kurz "warned of the growing influence of Turkey and Saudi Arabia."

Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has told Vienna's Kurier that Muslim kindergartens should be shut down.

Asked by the newspaper whether this should be done, Kurz replied: "Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens."