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VIENNA — Herbert Kickl’s bid to become Austria’s first far-right chancellor since World War II and enact a Trump-style shake-up of the country stalled after coalition talks collapsed this week.

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, arrives at his party's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, arrives at his party's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Credit: AP/Heinz-Peter Bader By The Associated Press Updated ...

VIENNA – Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl's efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after ...

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, addresses a news conference, in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s efforts to form a coalition government with a conservative party collapsed in mutual recriminations on Wednesday, more than four months after his party ...

Kickl has also espoused the far-right concept of "remigration" -- wanting to expel people of non-European ethnic backgrounds, including Austrian nationals, deemed to have failed to integrate.

Speaking on Tuesday, Kickl had a message for his would-be coalition partners, the People’s party: submit to a greatly reduced role in government. Otherwise, he said, “I can say that’s it.” ...

T HE PROSPECT of Herbert Kickl, the leader of the hard-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), running Austria alarms centrists in the Alpine republic and its European neighbours.Paul Lendvai, a prominent ...

The Freedom Party and its leader, Herbert Kickl, have steadily built support by demonizing immigrants, while entering Austria’s political mainstream. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F ...