Jean-Marie Le Pen, who lived to the age of 96, reminds us that extreme right populism has been a persistent feature of ...

Herbert Kickl, the leader of Austria’s Freedom party (FPÖ), won’t have it all his own way in forming a government, as Ben Hall says (“Far-right success will echo beyond Austria”, Opinion, January 16).

Because the Burgenland state elections on Sunday were the first after the FPÖ's breakthrough in the National Council and in ...

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 ...

New Year's Eve event of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE) near Vienna with the participation of its chairman Herbert Kickl.

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

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

Sutter, who took over the rotating Swiss presidency this year, has made her first official visit abroad as president to ...

In this edition, we hear how Austria is on the cusp of crowning a far-right leader, and examine NATO chief Mark Rutte's plans ...

Herbert Kickl faces a rocky road to Brussels if the Freedom Party politician is indeed elected as Austria's next chancellor.

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 ...

Vienna's Mayor Michael Ludwig has announced a date for the new city election which is months earlier than expected.