Brussels, 02/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - Hans Jörg Schelling, a vice president of the Austrian Economic Chamber, an influential lobby, was sworn in on Monday 1 September after the Austrian ÖVP conservative party unanimously elected him on Sunday as the successor to Michael Spindelegger in the post of finance minister. Spindelegger resigned last week following disagreements on tax reform (see EUROPE 11140).
On Tuesday 29 August, Reinhold Metterlehner, Austria's minister for the economy, took...