Friday, 6. September 2002
Topic: - on September 6, 2002 at 11:16:00 AM CEST
Austria's coalition on the brink
Austria's coalition government looked in danger of collapsing yesterday after prominent members of the rightwing Freedom party threatened to resign in a dispute about tax cuts. The party's leader and vice-chancellor, Susanne Riess-Passer, the finance minister, Karl-Heinz Grasser, and other FPO ministers said they would step down if nearly 400 loyalists of its de facto leader, Jörg Haider, forced the government into cutting taxes.
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