For years Herbert Kickl was written off by many, including party comrades, as a figure best suited for work behind the scenes. An Eigenbrötler, they joked: someone who bakes their own bread. Now, he ...

It all happened very quickly: former Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer broke off the coalition negotiations and resigned. The ...

Mr Kickl’s political hero is Viktor Orban, Hungary’s autocratic leader. But unlike Hungarian voters who first voted Mr Orban ...

Another leading figure from Austria's centre-right People's Party (ÖVP) has been appointed as the country's acting head of ...

Up to 50,000 people demonstrated across Austria on Thursday against the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) as it begins coalition ...