“I am sure and I hope” that Austria will continue to be fully involved and “a reliable partner” as a member of the European Union, said the President of the European Council, António Costa, on Monday 13 January in Brussels, on the fringes of a meeting with the acting Austrian Chancellor, Alexander Schallenberg.
Mr Costa felt that the democratic choices of the EU Member States should be respected at a time when the Austrian parties have been struggling to form a government since...