The EU is set to lose another of its familiar faces on the political stage following Sunday's election defeat of Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schussel at the hands of Austria's social democrats.
Although polls before the elections had still indicated a tight victory for the conservative Mr Schussel, results on Sunday (1 October) showed that his comfortable campaign slogan "we're doing well here" was not well received by voters.
Mr Schussel's centre-right Austrian People's Party l...
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