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Now playing Next Austria Austria's health minister quits amid 'exhaustion' of COVID response "15 months have felt like 15 years," said Austria's health minister Rudolf Anschober, announcing his resignation. 13/04/2021
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Now playing Next Austria Austria has failed in fight against corruption, says Council of Europe The Council of Europe has deplored Austria's "overall insufficient" progress in the fight against corruption in judicial and political circles. 01/03/2021
Now playing Next Austria Austria can be 'model' for climate policy, says Arnold Schwarzenegger It came as the actor-turned-politician was praising Austria's new conservative-green coalition government. 10/01/2020
Now playing Next Austria Mix-up sees soap opera subtitles appear as Austria government sworn in Public broadcaster left red-faced after captions mistake. 09/01/2020
Now playing Next Austria Who will Austria's Sebastian Kurz choose as coalition partner? Austria's Sebastian Kurz's People party has come first in Sunday's poll, but now the leader must choose a coalition partner. Who will he pick? 29/09/2019
Now playing Next The Cube Austria elections: Who leads the social media campaign? | #TheCube Social media has played an increasing role in the 2019 elections, as political parties and their lead candidates have sought to increase online engagement with potential voters 27/09/2019
Now playing Next Austria Austria elections: Will the far-right return to power? Former conservative chancellor Sebastian Kurz is cruising to victory but it is not clear which coalition partners he will pick — the far-right party FPO or a so-called 'Jamaica' alliance with the Greens and Liberals? 26/09/2019
Now playing Next Europe News Ibiza-gate: The story behind Austria's political hurricane Ibiza-gate - Austria's political hurricane. Inside the country's move to early elections 26/09/2019
Now playing Next Austria #FiftyShadesOfKurz: Sebastian Kurz biography mocked for fawning prose The official biography has been compared to the erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" 12/09/2019
Now playing Next Austria Austrian MPs vote to completely ban glyphosate by 2020 The controversial herbicide has been cleared for use by the EU until at least 2022. 03/07/2019
Now playing Next Austria First female chancellor picked for Austrian interim government Austria’s president has picked the female president of the Constitutional Court to become interim chancellor after parliament voted Sebastian Kurz’s government out of office in the wake of a video sting scandal. 30/05/2019
Now playing Next World I'll be back - ousted Austrian Chancellor Kurz vows to return Fresh off both success in the EU elections and a no-confidence vote in Parliament that removed him from office, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz vows to win the job back in September. 29/05/2019
Now playing Next Austria Austria: What to know about the video which took the government down Questions have been raised about the timing of the video's release and why a German satirist had alluded to it weeks ago. 20/05/2019
Now playing Next Austria Austria's FPÖ ministers resign en masse The far-right party had warned earlier in the day that it would resign from the government if Chancellor Sebastian Kurz moved to sack the interior minister. 20/05/2019
Now playing Next World Corruption probe a blow for far-right parties ahead of EU elections Austria is bracing itself for fresh elections after a corruption scandal embroiling the far right brought down the coalition government. Secretly-filmed footage emerged over the weekend appearing to show the vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache dealing in corruption. 20/05/2019
Now playing Next World Road Trip Europe Day 41: Passing the baton in Austria Vincent McAviney and Leszek Kablak take over on the road trip to visit Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and finally Germany over the next few days, finding out what local people think ahead of the EU elections. 13/05/2019
Now playing Next World Raw Politics in full: check out tonight's full episode All this and more in Thursday night's full episode of Raw Politics. 21/02/2019