Passengers on a high-speed train in Bavaria fought and overpowered a man after he started attacking people with an axe. The ...

However, the ÖVP's first attempt to forge a coalition with the Social Democrats and Neos failed at the beginning of January. On 6 January, Van der Bellen gave Kickl the mandate to form a government.

FPO leader Herbert Kickl has dismissed the tie-up as a “coalition of losers”, calling for a snap election that opinion polls suggest would increase his party’s share of the vote further from ...

Head of far-right Freedom Party Herbert Kickl gives a press statement after ending coalition talks with People's Party (OEVP) in Vienna, Austria, Feb 12, 2025. [Photo/Agencies] Austria's far-right ...

VIENNA – Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after ...

Earlier, Kickl told President Alexander Van der Bellen that he was giving up the mandate to form what would have been Austria's first far-right-led government since the FPÖ was founded by former ...

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party ...

Austria’s designated Chancellor Herbert Kickl addressed the gathering via video. The event was hosted by Spain’s far-right Vox party.

My first and only encounter with Herbert Kickl, the current leader of the far-right FPO, took place in 2009. At the time, he was the party's general secretary, and we debated the Swiss minaret ban ...

Herbert Kickl, who now has good chances of becoming Austria's next chancellor, has radicalized the FPÖ in recent years. He seems to enjoy his role as the ultimate evil.

Born in 1968 to a blue collar family in southern Austria, Kickl’s early fortunes owed much to the social welfare state built by the then dominant Social Democratic party.

Nobody in this republic needs you either,” said Mr Stocker in parliament in December. Mr Kickl is anti-immigration, anti-Islam, strongly Eurosceptic and dismissive of Austria’s LGBT community.