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 ...

VIENNA (AP) — A lawmaker from the far-right Freedom Party was elected Thursday as the new speaker of Austria's parliament, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday elected for the first time a far-right politician as parliament president despite the country's main Jewish organisation criticising him for having paid "homage to Nazi ...

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 ...

Austrian parliamentarians elected Walter Rosenkranz of the FPÖ to the second-highest position in government. The appointment ...