Austrian chancellor gives up as union talks collapse
By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Talks in between Austria's 2 primary centrist celebrations on forming a union federal government without the reactionary Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed on Saturday, triggering conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer to reveal he would step down. A day previously a 3rd party, the liberal Neos, ignored the talks, blaming the other celebrations for stopping working to take the vibrant and definitive action it stated it had actually required. "I will stand down as chancellor and as leader of individuals's Party in the coming days and allow an organized shift," Nehammer stated in a video declaration on X, after talks with the Social Democrats (SPO). The union talks' collapse 3 months after September's parliamentary election highlights the growing trouble of for...