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epa07592148 Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks during a news conference ahead of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Austrian Chancellery building in Vienna, Austria, 22 May 2019. Media reports on 21 May 2019 stated that all ministers from Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) resigned, after Sebastian Kurz sacked Interior Minister Herbert Kickl of the coalition partner the right-wing Austian Freedom Party (FPOe) stating that Kickl position as head of Police could be a conflict of interest in any investigation into the recent allegations which come after Austrian Vice Chancellor and FPOe party leader Heinz-Christian Strache Strache's resignation on 18 May 2019 from his post as he was caught in a corruption allegations scandal. German magazine 'Der Spiegel' and newspaper 'Sueddeutsche Zeitung' published on 17 May 2019 a secretly recorded video which appeared to show Strache in Ibiza, Spain, in July 2017, meeting an alleged niece of a unknown Russian oligarch who wanted to invest large sums of money in Austria. EPA/CHRISTIAN BRUNA