Karas vs Kurz: Why Austria’s Chancellor faces some difficult choices ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections

Othmar Karas, the leader of the Austrian People’s Party’s (ÖVP) delegation to the European Parliament, was widely viewed as one of the most influential Austrian MEPs. However, as Michael Burri explained, Karas was posing in 2018 some difficult questions for the ÖVP and its Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ahead of the European Parliament elections in May 2019.

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