Austria's conservative leader Kurz says the new coalition government with the Greens reflects 'best of both worlds'
Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz said on Thursday his party's coalition deal with the Greens, who are set to join the Alpine country's government for the first time, offers “the best of both worlds” and will allow both partners to keep central election promises.
The agreement combines pledges of action against climate change and of improved government and administrative transparency, Green priorities, with moves to cut Austrians' tax burden and with the tough line on migration that Kurz has made a hallmark of his People's Party. The new coalition results from a snap September election in which Kurz's party emerged as by far the biggest in the national legislature and the Greens made strong gains to return to parliament after a two-year absence.
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