Austria has become the only western European country with a far-right party in government after the anti-immigration Freedom Party and Sebastian Kurz's conservatives struck a coalition deal. At a joint news conference Saturday with Kurz to speak about the coalition deal, Strache said his party agreed to rule out a referendum on Austria leaving the European Union. Of Austria's 8.7 million people, more than half a million are Muslim, mostly Turkish or of Turkish origin. Strache and Kurz oppose Turkish membership of the EU, a position that polls regularly show most Austrians agree with. There is unlikely to be a similar outcry this time, given the rise of anti-establishment parties across the continent.

Source: CBC News December 16, 2017 16:18 UTC