Following a ban from a Swiss canton over the weekend and a total ban from Germany issued today, far-right figurehead Martin Sellner is making headlines - here’s why.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday said it was "right" for German leader Angela Merkel to rule out working with the far right, even after he did the opposite in his previous government.
Norbert Hofer, who is expected to be formally elected on Saturday to lead Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) into national elections, has gained a reputation as the party's friendly face in contrast to some of its firebrands.
The leader of an Austrian far-right group has confirmed a media report that he had more extensive contact with the suspect behind deadly mosque attacks in New Zealand than previously admitted.
More than 20,000 people rallied on Saturday in Vienna against Austria's new conservative-far right coalition over its hardline stances on immigration and social policy, police said.
Austria's new far-right interior minister sparked an outcry Thursday by saying that his government wants to
"concentrate" asylum-seekers, employing a word widely associated with Nazi camps.
Turkey on Sunday slammed the incoming Austrian government, a coalition between conservatives and the far-right, for "discrimination" after its programme contained a pledge that Vienna will not agree to Ankara joining the EU.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was
in triumphant mood Saturday after agreeing a coalition deal with the
conservatives, capping a year of successes for Europe's nationalist movements.
Austria's conservatives and the far-right agreed a coalition deal on Friday, two months after elections that saw the Alpine country move to the right and capping a year of successes for Europe's nationalists.
The far-right Identitarian youth movement has placed a veil on one of Vienna’s most famous statues as a protest against what they call “the Islamisation of Austria”.
A 45-year-old German woman who’s a member of the radical far-right Reichsbürger group has been arrested in the Austrian state of Carinthia and deported to Slovenia.
More than 60 prominent Austrians have signed an open letter calling on the governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer (ÖVP), to ban a controversial right-wing congress which is scheduled to take place in the state at the end of this month.
The leader of Austria’s populist Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has defended his invitation to the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders to speak in Vienna, saying that he is an “interesting European politician”.
A series of protests saw thousands of police on the streets of Vienna, with one police officer hospitalized with serious injuries by a firework thrown by a protestor on Friday evening.
