In a historic move, Walter Rosenkranz, a member of the far-right Freedom Party, was elected speaker of the Austrian parliament. Last month, the Freedom Party had a strong performance in national ...

VIENNA— A new political precedent was added to the history of post-WWII Austria: for the first time, a candidate representing the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), Walter Rosenkranz, was elected ...

(JNS) A new exhibition on the fate of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust has been inaugurated at the Austrian Parliament, in a major step forward in acknowledging the country’s Nazi past. The ...

The Freedom Party got nearly 30 percent of the national vote, but mainstream parties have vowed to join in a coalition government without the party’s pugilistic leader, Herbert Kickl. By Christopher F ...