It took 28.8% of the vote and beat outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party into second place. But in October, President Alexander Van der Bellen gave Nehammer the ...

Karl Nehammer, who resigned a week ago as Austria's chancellor after attempts to form a coalition government without the far right collapsed, is withdrawing from national politics and giving up his ...

The talks have dragged on since Austria's president, Alexander Van der Bellen, tasked the conservative chancellor in October ...

On Tuesday, former Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) officially retired from active politics. He did so by resigning his seat in ...

That came after the conservative Austrian People’s Party of outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation Saturday, made an abrupt U-turn on its previous refusal to contemplate ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria's ruling conservatives picked Secretary-General Christian Stocker as interim successor to Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Austrian media reported on Sunday, after Nehammer quit as ...

Austria's conservative chancellor Karl Nehammer broke off coalition talks with the Social Democrats to form the country's next government on Saturday, saying they couldn't find agreement on key issues ...

Four months after its election victory, Austria’s hard Right is about to lead a government for the first time since 1945.

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl and his prospective coalition partners say they have reached an agreement to bring ...

VIENNA (AP) — Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country's interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the ...

Talks to form a coalition government led by Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) will begin on Friday, the party said on ...

The far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the conservative People's Party (ÖVP), currently negotiating a coalition ...