Austrian Economy Minister: “No Time for Idle Complacency”

People ♦ Published: August 27, 2013; 17:48 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austrian Minister of Economics and former general secretary of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO), Reinhold Mitterlehner avoids any dispute with Christoph Leitl, President of WKO but signals a different opinion.

Austrian Economy Minister: “No Time for Idle Complacency” / Picture: © Parlamentsdirektion / Simonis

In an interview with Austrian daily “Oberösterreichische Nachrichten” (OÖN) Mitterlehner declares that the words ”screwed up“ used by Leitl were not his and clearly signals a different opinion about the situation of the Austrian economy. Mitterlehner referred to 60 percent export quota, twelve years above the EU’s average in a row and the employment situation which is much…