Austria wore out the cordon sanitaire long ago. For much of the postwar era, the Freedom party was excluded by a series of grand coalitions (barring a single early-1980s coalition with the Social ...

Austria's centrist parties may come to their senses and try a second round of coalition talks, or form a minority government.

Herbert Kickl faces a rocky road to Brussels if the Freedom Party politician is indeed elected as Austria's next chancellor.

The European Commission has decided not to formally reprimand Austria for breaching the EU’s budget rules, in a major victory for Herbert Kickl's Freedom Party (FPÖ) which is poised to lead Vienna’s ...

Sutter, who took over the rotating Swiss presidency this year, has made her first official visit abroad as president to Austria.

Vienna's Mayor Michael Ludwig has announced a date for the new city election which is months earlier than expected.

At a beer-fueled meeting of Austria's far-right Freedom Party this week, members of parliament referred to Afghan refugees as ...

Lower Austria's SPÖ regional party leader Sven Hergovich has identified collusion between the ÖVP and FPÖ ahead of the ...

A government led by the far right wouldn't just herald a new era in Austrian politics. It would bolster rising far-right ...

The EU’s strategy to deal with the far-right Freedom Party heading for power in Vienna is … hope for the best.

Herbert Kickl, who now has good chances of becoming Austria's next chancellor, has radicalized the FPÖ in recent years. He ...

Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, looks set to welcome its first far-right Chancellor since World War II, in the form ...