The UN rights chief said Monday that far-right tilt of Austria's new coalition government marked a "dangerous development", and cautioned against "the peddling of fear" in European politics.

"I am very worried," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein told AFP in an interview, cautioning that the new Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's decision to take hard-right positions on things like immigration to win support marked "a dangerous development... in the political life of Europe."

Source: AFP