The Burgenland election is over. After losing the absolute majority, Governor Hans Peter Doskozil (SPÖ) has to look for a ...

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 ...

Herbert Kickl on his way out of Vienna's Hofburg Palace following talks with Austria's president, Alexander Van der Bellen, ...

BRUSSELS ― The European Commission has approved an Austrian plan to slash public spending that looks set to underpin the ...

If you’ve read our interview with GERHARD REISSNER above, you know which challenges Austria is facing, and to which extent it ...

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 ...

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

VIENNA, - Austria's far-right Freedom Party and conservative People's Party plan to improve the state's finances by scrapping climate-change-related measures and collecting more in dividends from ...

Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and conservative People's Party (OVP) plan to improve the state's finances by ...

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

For the majority of Austrians, voting for the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ)—known for its numerous scandals and close ties to ...

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