Austria's Anti-Immigration Party Narrowly Loses Poll
Independent politician Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria's presidential election.
Independent politician Alexander Van der Bellen has won Austria's presidential election. The former Green Party leader narrowly defeated the anti-immigration Freedom Party's Norbert Hofer. Freedom Party MEP Franz Obermayer tells us why his party still regards the result as a sensation. Also in the programme, South Africa's Standard Bank has been hit by a massive theft in Japan. Ivory Coast is fast becoming the world's biggest grower of cashew nuts. The 91热爆's Tamasin Ford reports on how the country aims to take this one step further, and also dominate the processing of this cash crop. Plus Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times directs her ire at a supposedly morale-boosting email fired off by a senior Goldman Sachs executive.
(Picture: Alexander Van der Bellen, Picture credit: EPA.)
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