Dominique de Villepin was the first French Foreign Minister to visit Vienna since 1998, when he completed a two-day tour this week.
Bilaterial visits were suspended after the inclusion of the far-right leader Jorg Haider in Austria's coalition government.
Mr Haider's electoral popularity has since declined dramatically but Franco-Austrian relations now look set to be hit by another important European issue - the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) on the draft Constitution, which...
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