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

Kickl’s anti-immigration party, which also opposes sanctions against Russia, won Austria’s parliamentary election in September. It took 28.8% of the vote and beat then-Chancellor Karl Nehammer ...

Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl said Tuesday in his first comments after being tasked to form a new government that he aspires to "govern Austria honestly" as he prepared for talks on a ...

Austria’s president on Monday tasked far-right Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl with trying to form a new government after a failed attempt by outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer. Nehammer ...

Mr Kickl’s party won Austria’s parliamentary election in September, taking 28.8% of the vote and beating outgoing Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People’s Party into ...

On Saturday, conservative Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced his resignation, saying that “no agreement” was possible with the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) “on key points” toward ...

Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen announced a meeting with far-right leader Herbert Kickl to discuss forming a government after Chancellor Karl Nehammer's coalition talks failed. The ...

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

Kickl’s pro-Russian views, embrace of conspiratorial thinking around the Covid-19 pandemic and unsavoury flirtations with Austria’s Nazi past have made him too toxic for Nehammer and other ...

"Kickl here, Kickl there, Kickl everywhere," Kickl joked at a typically rowdy, beer-fuelled rally before last year's election, goading his main rival then, conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer ...

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl formally received a mandate to form a new government, after coalition talks between centrist parties had collapsed.

President Alexander van der Bellen, a former Green Party member, met with Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl on Monday and officially tasked him with forming a government.