The EU has given its blessing to Austria's new government on grounds it is "pro-European", despite its far-right element.
"We will judge the Austrian government on its deeds," Eurpean Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said at a joint press conference with Austrian prime minister Sebastian Kurz in Brussels on Tuesday evening (19 December).
"I look at the government program and I have reasonable confidence that this will be a pro-European government," Juncker said.
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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.