A radical leader edges towards transforming Austria’s democracy, sparking widespread concern.

Former Austrian President Heinz Fischer and other political figures have raised alarms over a possible far-right led ...

The FPÖ and ÖVP struggle over asylum policy, Kickl pushes for a bank levy, and Lower Austria tightens measures against ...

VIENNA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - He is so abrasive that he has one of Austria's lowest personal approval ratings, but far-right chief Herbert Kickl's strategic cunning helped his party to its first ever ...

If he comes to power, sharp-tongued, far-right leader Herbert Kickl will be contemporary Austria's most controversial chancellor. His Freedom Party (FPOe), which topped national polls for the ...

The far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the conservative People's Party (ÖVP), currently negotiating a coalition ...

VIENNA (AP) — The leader of Austria's Freedom Party received a mandate Monday to form a new government, which would be the first headed by the far right since World War II if he succeeds.

Austria's far-right and conservative parties have previously shared power but always with the Freedom Party in a junior role.

Ever since Herbert Kickl's far-right Freedom Party edged a win in September's legislative elections with 29% of the vote, Austria's centrist politicians have tried to block Kickl from becoming ...

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

HOW CONCERNED should Europe be at the rise of Herbert Kickl, the leader of Austria’s hard-right Freedom Party, the FPö?

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 ...