Despite provoking outrage from other mainstream political parties, German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz said ...

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As the senior governing coalition partner, the Freedom Party (FPO), led by Herbert Kickl, is expected to implement even ...

There is a certain irony here: the negotiations on the "Zuckerl" coalition were ended because of the SPÖ's demand for new ...

Developments in Saxony belie all talk by the establishment parties of a supposed “firewall” against collaborating with the ...

If the German political class generally pays limited attention to Austrian politics, its southern neighbor’s convulsed start to the year has forced them to ask what it means for Germany. After ...

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

In Austria, Sweden and Finland, conservative parties are making Faustian pacts with their more extreme opponents ...

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 ...

Perhaps it struck a chord because Fritz is not just a nickname for Friedrich but also for a stereotypical German person – and ...

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 ...

In the middle of the coalition negotiations with the ÖVP, the Freedom Party demonstrated its will to power at its New Year's ...