"Krone" commentary

A final (un)maturity test for blue-black-red

So much has already been agreed in the various coalition negotiations - in terms of state responsibility, this must now be upheld.

(Bild: APA/ROLAND SCHLAGER)

Do Herbert Kickl and Christian Stocker, Andreas Babler and Beate Meinl-Reisinger know and will they show state responsibility? Or will they fail the maturity test that all parties must now take for the good of Austria?

They are patient pages with sometimes absurd substantive positions, which light up in the three traffic light colors suitable for children: green for agreements reached, yellow for half compromises, red for solutions still open between the negotiators. This unites the otherwise completely different parties FPÖ, ÖVP, SPÖ and NEOS. (The Greens were only allowed to watch after their five years in government).