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AUSTRIA'S CONSERVATIVE-FAR RIGHT CABINET LIKELY SWORN IN DEC. 20
The populist far right last entered an Austrian federal government in 2000 and currently rules in coalition with centrists in two of the country's provinces... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S EMPLOYMENT POLICIES ARE NOT WORKING
By Alois Stoger and Nicolas Schmit Although the European Union is in the midst of an economic recovery, long-term unemployment - joblessness and job-seeking that... READ MORE›
MALAYAN TIGER CUBS CELEBRATED AT PRAGUE ZOO
Two cubs of critically endangered Malayan tigers lie in their enclosure at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, on Nov. 14, 2017... READ MORE›
3,000 FORM CHAIN OF LIGHT AGAINST FAR RIGHT IN AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT
At least 3,000 people formed a chain of light in Vienna on Wednesday to protest against the formation of a government that includes the far-right Freedom Party... READ MORE›
FOOTAGE CAPTURES HEART-STOPPING MOMENT PLANE IS FORCED TO ABORT LANDING
Powerful storms have battered central and northern Europe over the weekend with at least six people dead in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN POLICE HUNT GUNMAN AFTER TWO KILLED IN SHOOTING
Austrian police are searching for a 66-year-old man suspected of shooting dead two neighbors and wounding a third before escaping in a white Volkswagen van... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN PRESIDENT HOLD FIRST TALKS WITH KURZ AFTER LEGISLATIVE ELECTION
To form a government, OVP needs to build a coalition with SPO or the Freedom Party... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA JOINS NEW RIGHT-WING EASTERN BLOC CONFRONTING THE EU'S FRANCO-GERMAN POWERBASE
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AUSTRIAS RIGHTWARD LURCH IS EUROPES NEW NORMAL
In a challenge to the European Union, hard-right parties are surging by confronting the neoliberal consensus on opening borders to trade and immigration... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA'S SEBASTIAN KURZ: THE MAN SET TO BE THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST LEADER
Austria's Sebastian Kurz The man set to be the world's youngest leader... READ MORE›
MILLENNIAL MAN KURZ, 31, SET TO TAKE POWER IN AUSTRIA
People's Party top polls in election making Kurz likely to become chancellor -- and Europe's youngest leader... READ MORE›
FAR-RIGHT 'KINGMAKER' HEINZ CHRISTIAN STRACHE SET FOR A PROMINENT ROLE IN AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT
Heinz-Christian Strache, the far-Right leader who emerged as 'kingmaker' in Austria's election, was greeted with a Hitler salute when he cast his own vote on Sunday... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA SET FOR WORLD'S YOUNGEST LEADER AMID SHIFT TO THE RIGHT
Sebastian Kurz is set to become the world's youngest national leader with his People's Party OVP on course to win Austria's snap general election... READ MORE›
THIS BLUE-EYED MILLENNIAL IS SET TO BECOME A WORLD LEADER IN EUROPE
After a Social Democratic-People's Party coalition was formed four years ago, Kurz, then 27, became Austria's foreign minister -- the youngest top diplomat in Europe... READ MORE›
WHAT AUSTRIA'S ELECTION SAYS ABOUT EUROPE'S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
Early projections showed the center-right People's Party OVP, led by Sebastian Kurz, had won the most votes in Austria, with about 31 percent... READ MORE›
YOUNG CONSERVATIVE KURZ ON TRACK TO BE AUSTRIAN LEADER
It is highly unlikely, however, that the Social Democrats would ally with the FPO if the SPO came third... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN VOTE COULD HAND POWER TO EUROPE'S YOUNGEST GOVERNMENT LEADER
Both the People's Party and the Freedom Party have called for securing Austria's borders and quickly deporting asylum-seekers whose requests are denied... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | AS AUSTRIA HEADS TO THE POLLS, THE FAR RIGHT EYES WHAT MAY BE THIS YEAR'S BIGGEST EUROPEAN SUCCESS
One of the most likely results, according to polls, is a coalition between the right-wing populist Freedom party and the center-right OVP party... READ MORE›
WIN OR LOSE IN AUSTRIAN VOTE, THE FAR RIGHT TRIUMPHS AS RIVALS BACK POLICIES ONCE DEEMED FRINGE
At 30, Kurz took control of the People's Party, the fusty center-right party that had long lagged in the polls... READ MORE›
MEET THE 31-YEAR-OLD AUSTRIAN ON COURSE TO BECOME THE WORLD'S YOUNGEST LEADER
He will become the world's youngest leader, ahead of North Korea's 34-year-old Kim Jong-un, and France's Emmanuel Macron, who is 39... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN PARTIES IN ELECTION TV CLASH
The nationalist Freedom Party and centre-left Social Democrats are neck-and-neck behind it, polls say... READ MORE›
ACTIVIST IN SHARK SUIT CITED FOR VIOLATION
Earlier this month,A Austria becameA the fifth European country to institute a ban on full face coverings... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA WANTED TO BAN BURQAS. NOW IT ALSO FINES MASCOTS AND STOPS CYCLISTS WHO WEAR SCARVES.
For one thing, most Austrians still refer to the new law as a burqa ban, despite officials' efforts to forestall such shorthand... READ MORE›
MIGRANTS WHO SURVIVED SEA JOURNEYS TO ITALY TAKE FURTHER RISKS BY HOPPING FREIGHT TRAINS TO GERMANY
Such finds are becoming alarmingly common as freight trains gain popularity with migrants seeking to reach Northern Europe... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN POLICE FORCE MUSLIM WOMEN TO REMOVE THEIR BURQAS
Vienna Muslim women in Austria were forced by police to remove their facial coverings on Monday, as an anti-burqa law came into effect... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA FACE VEIL BAN 'CRIMINALISES MUSLIM WOMEN'
Activists and experts have condemned a law implemented in Austria on Sunday prohibiting the face veil as counterproductive and as an attack on religious freedom ... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR PLEDGES TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF SMEAR CAMPAIGN
Austria's Chancelllor Christian Kern addresses a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 1, 2017... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN BAN ON FULL-FACE VEIL IN PUBLIC PLACES COMES INTO FORCE
Muslim groups have condemned the law, saying just a tiny minority of Austrian Muslims wear full-face veils... READ MORE›
'BURQA BAN' LAW SIGNALS RIGHTWARD POLITICAL TURN IN AUSTRIA
Under Chancellor Christian Kern, the Social Democrats are focusing on social topics and claiming credit for Austria's recent economic upturn... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA BECOMES LATEST EUROPEAN COUNTRY TO BAN BURQAS BUT ADDS CLOWN FACE PAINT, TOO
The Islamic Religious Authority of Austria calls it an infringement on privacy, religious freedom and freedom of opinion... READ MORE›
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AUSTRIA FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE NORBERT HOFER DEFEATED IN PRESIDENTIAL POLL
Far-right candidate Norbert Hofer admits he has lost Austria's presidential election... READ MORE›
LEFT-LEANING CANDIDATE WINS AUSTRIAN PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
Alexander Van der Bellen defeated right-wing populist Norbert Hofer in Sunday's election... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA'S PARLIAMENT BANS FULL-FACE VEIL IN PUBLIC
Austria has one of the most restrictive labour markets in Europe and this has not fundamentally been changed... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA MOVES TO BAN FULL-FACE VEIL IN PUBLIC SPACES
Austria's coalition government has announced plans to ban full-face veils in public and to restrict eastern European workers' access to the country's labour market... READ MORE›
CUBA OFFERS RUM TO PAY OFF $276M CZECH DEBT
Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic... READ MORE›
THE WRITER WHO DREAMED OF A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS
Zweig began to write The World of Yesterday after leaving Austria in 1934, anticipating the Nazification of his homeland... READ MORE›
CUBA OFFERS TO PAY OFF DEBT TO CZECH REPUBLIC IN RUM
If the entire debt were repaid in rum, the Czechs would have enough rum for 130 years at this pace... READ MORE›
BIKINI HIRING CONTEST FOR NUCLEAR PLANT INTERNS GETS TOXIC REACTION
A Czech nuclear power station seemed to focus more on looks than qualifications to hire interns, using a swimsuit contest on Facebook... READ MORE›
FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE CONCEDES IN AUSTRIA'S PRESIDENTIAL VOTE
The Austrian vote was a replay of elections in May, in which Hofer narrowly lost by 31,000 votes... READ MORE›
THE CHART THAT SHOWS WHO IS STILL LIVING AT HOME IN EUROPE
Buffeted by the European Union's slow-moving economy, many young people save money by still living with their parents... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAS FAR RIGHT SEES A PRIZE WITHIN REACH
Austrias Far Right Sees a Prize Within Reach The Presidency... READ MORE›
USTA APOLOGIZES AFTER NAZI-ERA GERMAN NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYED
The USTA extends a sincere apology to the German Fed Cup team fans 4 the outdated National Anthem... READ MORE›
VICTORY FOR VAN DER BELLEN AND THE LEFT IS A SIGH OF RELIEF FOR EUROPE
The sigh of relief that followed Alexander Van der Bellen's victory in Austria's rerun presidential election on Sunday could be heard all over Europe... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO BE POSTPONED DUE TO FAULTY GLUE
A rerun of Austria's presidential election is set to be postponed because the glue on postal votes is not sticking, the interior minister has said... READ MORE›
USING SIMILAR TACTICS, AUSTRIAN NATIONALISTS HOPE FOR A 'TRUMP BUMP'
It is as if Hofer -- from the nationalist, right-wing Freedom Party -- is reading from the same winning playbook as President-elect Donald Trump... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA CONVICTS ASYLUM SEEKER OF SYRIA WAR CRIMES
A Palestinian is sentenced to life in jail in Austria for killing 20 unarmed Syrian soldiers in Homs... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN NATIONALIST BEATEN TO PRESIDENCY IN BLOW TO POPULISTS
While mail-in ballots will only be counted on Monday, Van der Bellen's margin of victory was too great to change the outcome, and Hofer conceded defeat... READ MORE›
ALMOST A FIFTH OF 'EUROPEANS' WOULDN'T WANT TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO A MUSLIM
Almost a fifth of participants from five European countries would not want to have a Muslim as a neighbour, a recent study found... READ MORE›
'DON'T INTERFERE,' AUSTRIA'S FAR-RIGHT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TELLS NIGEL FARAGE
For me it could be important to help build a friendship between Russia and Washington, he said... READ MORE›
MENACE OF FAKE NEWS IS RATTLING POLITICIANS IN AUSTRIA AND GERMANY
Facebook has been forced to block posts targeting Eva Glawischnig, chairwoman of Austria's Green Party, that appeared to have been spread via a fake profile... READ MORE›
BUS CRASH IN AUSTRIAN ALPS AVERTED AFTER TOURIST APPLIES BRAKE
A quick-thinking French tourist has been praised for preventing a bus from plunging over a cliff in the Austrian Alps after the driver passed out... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA TO ASK EU FOR RIGHT TO HIRE LOCALS AHEAD OF OTHER EU WORKERS
He was speaking in Wels, run by the far-right Freedom Party FPOe ... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA'S KURZ: SET UP REFUGEE CAMPS IN N AFRICA
Sebastian Kurz says his country is overspending on refugees and migrants, but his German counterpart dismisses proposal... READ MORE›
14 DETAINED IN ISLAMIST-LINKED RAIDS IN AUSTRIAN CITIES OF VIENNA & GRAZ
Austrian police have arrested 14 people in anti-terrorist raids conducted in Vienna and Graz, the country's APA news agency reports, citing officials... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN FAR-RIGHT HOPEFUL HOFER MAY BACK EU VOTE
Austria's far-right presidential candidate Norbert Hofer has said he would push for a referendum on EU membership, if the EU became more centralised after Brexit... READ MORE›
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF REFUGEES: BERLIN-ALEPPO PEACE MARCH BEGINS
The march and the people are here to express their humanity and I want to contribute to it... READ MORE›
AUSTRIAN FAR-RIGHT PARTY'S TRIUMPH IN PRESIDENTIAL POLL COULD SPELL TURMOIL
Freedom party's Norbert Hofer, who won 36 percent of vote, has threatened to dissolve parliament before 2018 elections... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA, ITALY LATEST TO TEST GLOBAL POPULIST REVOLT
Austria's Sunday vote is a repeat match between left-leaning moderate Alexander Van der Bellen, 72, and Norbert Hofer, 45, of the right-wing Freedom Party... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S POPULISTS TARGET LANDMARK VICTORIES IN ITALY, AUSTRIA
Five Star, neck-and-neck with Renzi's Democratic Party, in opinion polls wants immediate elections if he loses... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA'S FAR-RIGHT PARTY CHIEF CALLS FOR LAW BANNING 'POLITICAL ISLAM' OVER ITS 'FASCIST WORLDVIEW'
Austria's far-right party chief calls for law banning 'political Islam' over its 'fascist worldview' -- RT News... READ MORE›