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

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 ...

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

Austria's President tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer to form a new government after the Freedom Party, led by Herbert Kickl, ...

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer looks up while attending a debate at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the ...

Nehammer, whose center-right Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) came in second to the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in September’s ...

Far-right Freedom Party of Austria, which won a majority in Sept. 29 elections, will be unable to form a coalition government ...

Walter Rosenkranz has been widely criticized for being a member of a far-right student fraternity known for its strident pan-German nationalism.

In a significant shift, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen has tasked Chancellor Karl Nehammer with forming a new ...

Austria faces a political challenge as President Alexander Van der Bellen tasks Chancellor Karl Nehammer with forming a government, despite the far-right Freedom Party winning most votes in the ...

The exploratory talks between the ÖVP and SPÖ start on Friday. FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl previously warned of a "coalition of ...