On Monday 6 December, Klima will present to president Thomas Klestil the results of inter-party talks. On Thursday 9 December, Klima will probably receive from Klestil the mandate to try to form a government. This feeling was probably reinforced on Friday when the unemployment figures for the month of November were announced, showing a decrease of nine percent in the number of job-seekers when compared to November 1998. In November there were 220,755 officially registered job-seekers in Austria.
Nuclear plants are still a subject of controversy between Austria and Slovakia.
The activation on Wednesday of the second reactor of the Mochovce nuclear plant provoked a strong reaction from the Austrian Minister for Consumer Protection, Barbara Prammer.