In Austria, the example of the Greens allied with the conservative right

One protects borders, the other protects the climate. This is the coalition contract that the Austrian Greens have signed, by allying themselves with the conservative party of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, leaving the latter any leeway to continue its security shift. In return, environmentalists have carte blanche on environmental issues. This baroque government team continues to surprise the press, which wonders how the very liberal Grünen can tolerate, on the part of their powerful ally, a policy so hostile to immigration.

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But its operation arouses the interest of European leaders, confronted for the first time in the EU, with the emergence of a government ecology. The party had obtained 14% of the votes in the September legislative elections, a sharply rising score which had led Sebastian Kurz, deprived for his part of an absolute majority (37.5%), to start talks. Also in Germany, the Greens seem ready to take power, spared

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