Austria’s new coalition agrees to extend school headscarf ban
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz also revives plan for ‘precautionary detention’ of asylum seekers
Austria’s conservative and Green parties have agreed plans to extend a headscarf ban in schools and introduce “precautionary detention” of “dangerous” asylum seekers under a coalition government deal, according to local media reports.
Sebastian Kurz, leader of the Austrian People’s party (ÖVP), is set to return to the chancellorship, after hammering out a deal with Werner Kogler of the Greens, which would bring the smaller party into the national government for the first time.