But cracks have appeared since last week, with radical FPOe leader Herbert Kickl insisting his party wants to hold both the interior and finance ministries -- demands the OeVP has rejected.

Austria’s president then asked Mr Stocker to try again with the SPÖ and NEOS. Haunted by the thought of seeing Mr Kickl in ...

Austria goes to the polls this Sunday, with the populist, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) tipped to emerge as the winner, in what would mark another gain for the far right in Europe.. Unlike ...

But past OeVP-FPOe governments have been short-lived. The last one, headed by charismatic then OeVP leader Sebastian Kurz collapsed in the wake of an FPOe corruption scandal in 2019 after just a ...

Leader of the Austrian People's Party (OeVP), Christian Stocker, makes a press statement after the end of the coalition negotiations between the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) and OeVP in Vienna ...

If the OeVP — who has been part of every government since 1987 — wins the most seats or performs almost as strongly as the FPOe, analysts see a possibility of a coalition with the far-right as ...

The far-right has won the most votes in an Austrian election for the first time since the Nazi era, as the pro-Kremlin, anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPÖ) beat the ruling centre-right People's Party ...

The ÖVP will become "number one" again and Chancellor Karl Nehammer will remain in office, the Foreign Minister said, confident of victory. "We will work for that and everything else is speculative.

FPÖ does not see "stable" conditions with SPÖ Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen wants a stable government and that quickly, as he has emphasized.

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Austria goes to the polls this Sunday, with the populist, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) tipped to emerge ...