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VIENNA (Reuters) -Anti-corruption prosecutors are investigating Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz over possible false testimony to a parliamentary commission investigating the fallout from the so-called Ibiza sting video that felled a previous government.
FILE PHOTO: Austria s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz attends a news conference on COVID-19 restrictions, in Vienna, Austria April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
The commission is looking into possible corruption under Kurz’s coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), a coalition that collapsed in 2019 after a video sting showing then FPO leader and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache offering to fix government contracts before he took office.
The video offered various angles of inquiry, including whether appointments to posts at state-owned companies were made correctly, although Strache says he was drunk and not speaking seriously. Opposition lawmakers in the commission have accused Kurz and his party of not
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz urged on Wednesday the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to enhance the pace of its examinations and decision on the use of the Russian Gamaleya Research Institute'.
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Criticism of Ema s slowness on authorizations and delays in procurement
Sebastian Kurz (Ansa)
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces a change of course in his vaccination plan. And he announces it just before his trip to Israel, not surprisingly. Austria, Denmark and other first movers will no longer rely on the European Union in the future and, together with Israel, will produce second generation vaccine doses for further coronavirus mutations in the coming years as well as working together to search for options for treatment, Kurz said. In preparation for the trip, the Chancellor today meets the representatives of the main Austrian pharmaceutical companies. The EU approach - he said - has been fundamentally correct, but the EMA is too slow with approvals and there are delays in deliveries by pharmaceutical companies .