Vienna – Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) expects an agreement on a new government in January. “Things are progressing well,” he said in the ORF broadcast Light into the darkness on Tuesday for the coalition negotiations. First of all, many “detailed challenges” have to be overcome, and there is a budget worth 250 billion euros. Negotiations will now continue intensively beyond the holidays. “I assume that we will do it in a good time frame in January.”