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The Austrian government is to continue, Chancellor Karl Nehammer said, despite a serious crisis engulfing his coalition on Monday, after an environment minister voted against government policy in support of a much fought-over EU conservation law. Asked if he wanted to end the coalition Nehammer said that despite his emotional reaction that it “makes no sense” for his government to continue after such defiance, he would not plunge Austria into chaos. European Union environment ministers on Monday approved the controversial Nature Restoration Law with Austrian Environment Minister Leonor Gewessl…

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