"Krone" analysis

Betting that blue-black …

What now? Have the coalition negotiations between the FPÖ and the ÖVP broken down, stopped, or at least been put on pause on the record day, the day on which the longest government negotiations in the history of the Second Republic were suspended?

ÖVP leader Christian Stocker surprisingly called a party executive meeting for Tuesday evening, and the black grandees discussed what was later called a "difficult situation" in the negotiations via video: Although they have now reached the final phase of negotiations, there is a huge rift over the division of portfolios.