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Inside Europe: Austria's far-right government collapses

Kerry Skyring | Keith Walker
May 24, 2019

Austria's coalition government of conservatives and far-right parties has collapsed. The trigger was a video recorded in Ibiza in which Vice-Chancellor and Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache is seen promising lucrative government contracts to a woman they believe is a rich Russian. We find out what else was said in the video, apart from suggestions of government contracts.

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