Sebastian Kurtz Is The World's Youngest Prime Minister
The problems Austria's chancellor is facing, from immigration to xenophobia, are as old as they are intractable.
| At just 31 years old, Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is the world’s youngest prime minister. In his previous job as foreign minister, he brokered a deal with his country’s Balkan neighbors to stem the flow of refugees by sealing off Europe’s southern borders, and he ordered stringent controls on “political Islam” funded from abroad. Though he calls himself a passionate pro-European, Kurz was appointed chancellor in December after sealing a controversial electoral pact with
