Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to ...

Karl Nehammer announced on Saturday he would step down in the next few days after coalition talks with the Social Democrats ...

A radical leader edges towards transforming Austria’s democracy, sparking widespread concern.

xxxx Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The announcement came after the People’s Party and ...

A coalition between the People’s Party and the Social Democrats was considered shaky from the beginning since the two parties together only have a razor-thin one-seat majority in the Austrian ...

Austria was thrown into political turmoil on Friday after the liberal party NEOS pulled out of coalition talks with the centre-left Social Democrats and the conservative People’s Party.

Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) General Secretary Christian Stocker meanwhile blamed "backward-looking forces" among the Social Democrats for prompting the collapse of the talks. "The behavior of ...