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.

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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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 ...

In a statement on Facebook, Herbert Kickl said that the President had broken with the “tried and tested normal processes” of Austria’s republic, by not entrusting the winner of the election ...

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 ...

Austria’s centre-right ÖVP, centre-left SPÖ, and liberal Neos announced on Tuesday they would begin official talks to form a ...

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 ...