The former beacon of Austria's far-right, former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, may be under investigation for embezzling more than half a million euros, but that has not deterred his most ardent supporters.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) announced on Friday that it has ousted its former leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was caught in a corruption scandal that saw the party ejected from government in May.
Six months after the "Ibizagate" corruption scandal drove Austria's far-right party from government, three suspects have been arrested over alleged extortion, prosecutors said.
Thousands of protesters in Vienna braved snow and icy temperatures Saturday to protest Austria's ruling coalition between the conservatives and the far-right a year after they came to power.
Buoyed by healthy polls and a booming economy, Austria's right-wing coalition is riding high on an extended political honeymoon a year after joining forces to push their anti-immigration agenda.
The head of Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, has officially announced his attendance at Donald Trump's upcoming inauguration, which takes place this Friday.
The leader of Austria's Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, described Islam as "misogynistic," "anti-liberal," and as having "a fascistic worldview" during an almost two-hour speech at the FPÖ's New Year gathering in the city of Salzburg.
A spokesman from the transition team working for newly-elected US president Donald Trump denied that their new national security advisor had met with Austrian far-right politicians in New York earlier in the month.
Austria's far-right Freedom Party said it has struck a "cooperation pact" with the party of Russian President
Vladimir Putin, who is courting populist movements across Europe in an anti-EU campaign.
The Austrian lawyer who filed a criminal case against the leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, for inciting hatred has called for Strache’s Facebook page to be shut down.
Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ), may face charges of “hate speech” as the Vienna prosecutor investigates whether he is responsible for posts made by other users on his Facebook page.
The head of Austria's popular far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), long subject to allegations he takes illegal drugs, has published results of tests that he said show he is clean.
The beer flowed and the oompah
music boomed in Vienna on Friday as France's Marine Le Pen, boosted by the
prospect of a "Brexit", fired up a rally of European far-right
"patriots" in Austria.
The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) was caught up in yet another scandal this week after his supporters posted racist comments about Austria's football team on his Facebook page.
Austria's far-right is probing "countless"
cases of fraud in last week's presidential election that saw its candidate
lose by a narrow margin, the party chief was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Austria's Freedom Party is "stronger than
ever" and ready to win the next general election after its candidate narrowly
failed to become the European Union's first far-right president, party chief
Heinz-Christian Strache said Tuesday.
The head of Austria's anti-immigration
far-right apologized on Friday for claiming a newspaper faked a photo of an
anti-refugee protest by his party, donating 9,000 euros ($10,300) to a
migrants charity.
Austria's government was licking its wounds on
Monday after the anti-immigration far-right triumphed in a presidential vote,
a debacle of historic proportions for a cosy political establishment seen as
out of touch and ineffectual.
Austria's far-right has a new golden boy in
the shape of Norbert Hofer, a smooth-talking gun enthusiast who sent shock
waves through the political establishment by defying polls and shooting to the
top in Sunday's first round of a presidential ballot.
Police have arrested two people following clashes yesterday between the anti-refugee protest led by the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) and a counter-demonstration.
As Graz residents still recover from the shock of Saturday's tragedy, the leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache has come under fire for his comments about the nationality of the driver behind the attack.
The leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) is suing the Austrian National Broadcaster (ORF) after a television soap opera it broadcasts suggested he is gay.
In the wake of calls from the leader of the French National Front party Marine Le Pen for the reinstatement of the death penalty after the recent terrorist incidents in Paris, Austria's far right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache firmly ruled out support for executions in Austria.
The leader of Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) has warned against radical Islam, Sharia law and the “fascist” Islamic State ahead of a demonstration the party has organised against a planned Islamic high school in Simmering, Vienna.
