What Brexit Means for Austria: Mitterlehner, Kurz, Fiat Steyr

PoliticsBrussels ♦ Published: June 20, 2016; 17:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

Mitterlehner hopes that the referendum will end in Britain staying in the EU. Kurz says, that Brexit would be terrible. Fiat could relocate production of agriculture and construction machine maker CNH (Case New Holland) from UK to Steyr in case of Brexit.

What Brexit Means for Austria: Mitterlehner, Kurz, Fiat Steyr / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Furfur / Public domain

Vice-Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner (OVP) hopes that the Brexit referendum will end in Britain staying in the EU, because a Brexit would have serious consequences for the capital and financial market.

Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz (OVP) argues in a Facebook video entry that Great Britain leaving the EU would be terrible, especially since the UK is a country that…