VIENNA, Sept 30 (Hina/AP) - Austria's chancellor threw his support behind the enlargement of the European Union on Saturday, the eve of national elections spiced by a bitter debate over immigration and fierce anti-foreigner sentiment
from the country's far right, the Associated Press reported.
VIENNA, Sept 30 (Hina/AP) - Austria's chancellor threw his
support behind the enlargement of the European Union on Saturday, the eve of
national elections spiced by a bitter debate over immigration and fierce
anti-foreigner sentiment from the country's far right, the Associated Press
reported. Speaking at the final campaign rally for his center-right
Austrian People's Party, Chancellor Wolfgang
Schuessel, said he supports the EU's decision to take in Romania and
Bulgaria on Jan. 1, and insisted that Croatia, too, should join the bloc, the
AP reported.
"I want to use the chance that Europe has given us," Schuessel said.
Polls showed the governing People's Party and the opposition
center-left Social Democrats running neck and neck, and the race for third
between the far-right Freedom Party and the leftist Greens also too close to
call, the AP said.