New information from Britain on alleged terrorist activity by Hezbollah is likely to gain Austria's support to blacklist the Lebanese group.
Britain earlier this year proposed adding Hezbollah's military wing to the EU terrorist register.
France, Germany and the Netherlands support the move.
But several countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech republic, Ireland, Malta, Poland and Slovakia, opposed it at a meeting of EU counter-terrorism specialists in June.
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