After several rounds of exploratory talks, Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced the preliminary decision to form a coalition ...

Austria’s centrist parties are entering formal negotiations on a three-way government coalition with the aim of broad-ranging ...

Prosecutors are seeking to lift the immunity of the far-right leader in Austria to investigate him for allegedly giving false testimony, a parliament spokesman said on Thursday.

In this week’s Inside Austria we look at the political scandal that has led to a centre-left political resignation, another ...

Austria’s president has tasked the incumbent chancellor with forming a new government after all other parties refused to work with the leader of the far-right Freedom Party ...

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FPO leader Herbert Kickl has said he would be chancellor in ... Neos rather than his current coalition partner, the Greens. Austria has not been governed by a three-party coalition since ...

As such, Austria is a perfect example of the dangerous shortsightedness of normalising far-right parties — a process led in the 21st century by, above all, conservative parties. Herbert Kickl ...

Austria's president on Tuesday tasked conservative ... have excluded working with the FPOe under its radical leader Herbert Kickl, creating stalemate in the Alpine country. The decision by ...

The far-right Freedom Party was blocked in Austria as on Tuesday Austria's president asked incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer to form a new government. All other parties refused to work with the ...

In February 2018, when Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl was interior minister, several foreign intelligence services cut ...

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s president on Tuesday tasked ... it wouldn’t work with the Freedom Party under its leader, Herbert Kickl. The other three parties in the new parliament said they ...