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Learner drivers in Austria will no longer be able to take their concept take a look at in the Turkish language, the delivery ministry says.
A minority of potential drivers take the check in Turkish, however it reportedly is still the second one most-widespread option.
Transport Minister Norbert Hofer, from the a ways-right Freedom Celebration, mentioned the move was once geared toward slicing costs.
“Every additional language for training prices the state a 5-determine sum that is not justifiable,” he stated.
But he brought that the decision was once also meant to be an “encouragement to be told German.”
“It Is clearly an issue of prices but in addition for me you’ll want to to obviously determine which languages it is smart to have the exam in,” he told public radio station Ö1.
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He said applicants will still have the ability to take the examination in English, Croatian and Slovene.
The anti-immigration Freedom Party secured a number of key posts in Austria’s coalition executive after last year’s elections.
It governs with the conservative People’s Birthday Party, which makes Austria the one usa in Western Europe to have a miles-proper party in power.
The change to the language choices for learner drives comes amid a chronic souring of members of the family among Austria and Turkey.
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz needs the european to wreck off Turkey’s EUROPEAN club negotiations – a stance that has angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In May 2017 that anger led Turkey to veto Nato’s co-operation with Austria. The transfer disrupted Nato’s partnership actions with 41 countries. Turkey is a key player in Nato operations.
