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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 17, 2018, 04:58:23 pm
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Row over Putin's attendance at Austria minister's wedding
Vienna (AFP) - The expected attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin at Saturday's wedding of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl sparked a row Friday over whether the visit was appropriate.
"How is Austria's presidency of the EU meant to live up to the government's own claims of building bridges (between the EU and Russia) and being an honest broker, when Austria's foreign minister and chancellor are so obviously on one side?" asked MP Andreas Schieder of the opposition Social Democrats (SPOe).
SPOe MEP Evelyn Regner said the invite sent a "shameful" image of Austria to its EU partners, branding it "a provocation of European proportions".
Read more at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/row-over-putins-attendance-austria-ministers-wedding-153341545.html (https://www.yahoo.com/news/row-over-putins-attendance-austria-ministers-wedding-153341545.html)
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COLLUSION!