Europe’s Youngest Leader Sworn in in Austria Amid Protests

Europe’s Youngest Leader Sworn in in Austria Amid Protests
Head of the People's Party Sebastian Kurz reacts during the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Vienna, on Dec. 18, 2017 REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
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VIENNA—Hundreds of police sealed off part of central Vienna on Monday as Austria became the only western European country with a far-right party in power, but protests against the swearing-in proved small and largely peaceful.
Conservative Sebastian Kurz, who is just 31, became chancellor in a coalition with the far right two months after winning a parliamentary election with a hard line on immigration afterAustria was swept up in Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015.