An heir to the house of Habsburg has called on the European Court of Human Rights to overturn Austria's ban on members of former ruling families running for president, his lawyer said Tuesday. Because of this constitutional rule, Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen was not allowed to stand as a candidate for the presidential election in April. His lawyer, Rudolf Vouk, said the Strasbourg court's ruling would take several years. "But it should work out until the next election," he said, looking ahead to the 2016 polls. Citizens have shown little interest in the campaign of Habsburg- Lothringen, a third-degree nephew of Otto...
