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.

Since then, the conservatives have agreed to form a government with the far-right under a Chancellor Kickl. Kickl has successfully lobbied by promising the capital associations that he would implement ...

followed closely by the center-right People’s Party (ÖVP). Chancellor Karl Nehammer resigned after having failed, after ...

Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg has been named as the country's caretaker chancellor, filling the void left ...

The Freedom Party and its leader, Herbert Kickl, have steadily built support by demonizing immigrants, while entering Austria ...

The collapse of coalition talks last weeks has could lead to the far-right at the head of the Austrian government for the ...

The leader of the anti-immigration, pro-Russia Freedom Party has been given the chance to try to form a government after ...

Coalition talks in Austria collapsed during the weekend when Chancellor Karl Nehammer resigned, raising the prospect of the ...

Austria is set to become the latest European Union nation to turn to the far right for leadership. The Freedom Party of Austria, founded in the 1950s by former Nazis, is about to take power after ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, seen by many as the most pro-Russia leader of any EU country, hailed a “historic ...

Austria's president tasked far-right leader Herbert Kickl with trying to form a government Monday, in a historic move after coalition talks that excluded the Freedom party (FPOe) collapsed.