Austria’s President Alexander van der Bellen swore in the country’s new three-party government ... Consequently, far-right leader Herbert Kickl received a mandate from the president to form a ...

Van der Bellen then asked Herbert Kickl, leader of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), to form a government. The ÖVP was immediately willing to negotiate with the right-wing extremists ...

The coalition pact follows the failure of FPÖ chief Herbert Kickl to form a government due to policy differences with the ÖVP. Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen ultimately urged the ...

The ÖVP's Christian Stocker (L) was sworn in as Austrian chancellor by President Alexander van der Bellen (R ... FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, whose party is now forced onto the opposition benches ...

The Freedom Party has sought to join the rising tide of hard-right movements across Europe by tapping into voter anger over immigration, inflation and the European Union’s influence.

Kickl then tried to negotiate a coalition ... Stocker was speaking at President Alexander Van der Bellen's office with SPO party head Andreas Babler and Neos leader Beate Meinl-Reisinger after ...

The head of the far-right Freedom Party, or FPO, Herbert Kickl, has called the tie-up ... Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen asked the People's Party to lead coalition talks.

With the country without a government for the longest stretch in its modern history, President Alexander Van der Bellen had called ... even more comfortably. Mr Kickl has dismissed the new ...

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl last week called the tie-up a coalition ... Pressure from Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen led the ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos to try again and the trio reached ...

An outside view shows the Hofburg Palace where Head of People's Party (OEVP) Christian Stocker meets the Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen due ... leader Herbert Kickl said the result ...

Mr Stocker took over from Mr Nehammer as leader of the People’s Party and went into negotiations with Mr Kickl on a possible ... President Alexander Van der Bellen said as he swore in the ...