VIENNA: Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) secured Saturday its return to power in a coalition with the conservatives, capping a year of successes for Europe’s nationalist movements.

The anti-immigration party obtained the interior, defense and foreign ministries, but the incoming interior minister Herbert Kickl insisted that “nobody has anything to fear”.

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