A team of European Union experts will recommend that the political and economic body lift diplomatic sanctions it imposed on Austria after Jorg Haider’s far- right Freedom Party entered Austria’s government in February, according to German media reports. The E.U. appointed three leading political figures from Spain, Finland and Germany to compile a report on Austria’s human rights conditions and on the nature of the Freedom Party.
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