The Austrian government is likely to face legal challenges after it succeeded on its fifth attempt to pass a law this month giving the country’s intelligence service legal powers to deploy spyware on ...

Thomas Oberreiter asked to be dismissed from his post for “personal reasons,” according to the government in Vienna.

Austria, which is led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the Austrian People’s Party (OVP) in a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), was one of the few EU countries not to follow suit ...

In Austria, former Chancellor Karl Nehammer, from the ruling Austrian People's Party (OVP), is among those calling for such a reassessment, amid pressure from the far-right Freedom Party.

On June 10, a gunman killed ten people and seriously injured eleven others at a school in Graz, Austria. The attack itself lasted only a few minutes.

Amid an unprecedented budget crunch and drastic spending cuts in Vienna, defense spending continues to increase year over ...

VIENNA — At least nine people were killed and 12 wounded in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city’s mayor said.

Austria''s right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) has accused the European Union of forcing Europe into a dangerous dependence on US liquefied natural gas (LNG) by driving away other suppliers with its ...

Reaction was swift among Austria's 14 EU partners. Each of them imposed a diplomatic freeze on Vienna to show its rejection of the Freedom Party's perceived racist and xenophobic tendencies.