AUSTRIAN Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said this week that he would call for an end to diplomatic sanctions against his country at the Lisbon summit, which began today (23 March)

Date: 23/03/2000

"The sanctions are unjust and should be lifted as soon as possible," he said. But his fellow EU leaders are highly unlikely to agree to his demand, amid fears that this would suggest that their concerns over the extreme-right Freedom Party's entry into government had been allayed.