Walter Rosenkranz has become the first member of the Freedom Party to be speaker, one of the country's highest-ranking ...

A lawmaker from the far-right Freedom Party has been elected as the new speaker of Austria’s parliament, weeks after the ...

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday elected for the first time a far-right politician as parliament president despite the Jewish ...

The far-right Freedom Party's candidate Walter Rosenkranz was elected with 100 out of 162 valid votes cast, current ...

Austria’s president has tasked the incumbent chancellor with forming a new government after all other parties refused to work ...

The far-right Freedom Party was blocked in Austria as on Tuesday Austria's president asked incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer ...

A new exhibition on the fate of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust has been inaugurated at the Austrian Parliament, in a ...

Ever since Austria held elections last month, the prospect of the country's first far-right led government since the end of ...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) -Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Tuesday tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer, ...

Austria’s president asked the ruling conservative party to start coalition negotiation with the Social Democrats, snubbing ...

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen has given incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the conservative ÖVP the mandate ...