Austrian far-right leader Herbert Kickl and his prospective coalition partners say they have reached an agreement to bring down the budget deficit

Austria's far-right and conservative parties have previously shared power but always with the Freedom Party in a junior role.

Austria's far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) began coalition talks with the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the latter said on Thursday, after the failure of previous parties to form a government.

Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and conservative People's Party (OVP) plan to improve the state's finances by scrapping climate-change-related measures and collecting more in dividends from state-owned companies,

Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the conservative People's Party said on Monday that after three days of coalition talks they had reached a deal on bringing the budget deficit back within the European Union's limit.

Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) leader Herbert Kickl confirmed on Tuesday he plans to invite the conservative People's Party (OVP) to hold coalition talks after he was

ECB rate-setter also warns that inflation risks are on the rise and that a January rate cut is not a done deal.

In Austria, Sweden and Finland, conservative parties are making Faustian pacts with their more extreme opponents

Austria wore out the cordon sanitaire long ago. For much of the postwar era, the Freedom party was excluded by a series of grand coalitions (barring a single early-1980s coalition with the Social Democrats),

Herbert Kickl on his way out of Vienna's Hofburg Palace following talks with Austria's president, Alexander Van der Bellen, earlier this month. | Credit: Joe Klamar / AFP / "Vienna could be about to get its first far-right leader since WWII,

BRUSSELS ― The European Commission has approved an Austrian plan to slash public spending that looks set to underpin the program of a potential far-right-led government.

The leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on Saturday said his party does not want to leave the European Union, but called for an end to Brussels' "climate communism." Herbert Kickl,