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New Austrian prime minister Sebastian Kurz (l) received a warm welcome from the EU (Photo: European Commission)

EU should ban Austria presidency, French appeal says

France's former foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has called on the EU to boycott Austria's upcoming six-month presidency of the Council of the EU as well as Austrian ministers belonging to the country's far-right coalition party.

"We are not turning away our gaze: These are the heirs of Nazism that have come to power in the new Austrian government," Kouchner wrote in

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