This month Austria marked the 70th anniversary of the Anschluss, the onset of the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany. The commemorations were appropriately somber, save for discussion of a ...

Austria's new National Exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial underscores one main point: the country has dropped its victim myth. https://p.dw.com/p/41X7l ...

The far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won Austria's parliamentary election with 29.2% of the vote, according to preliminary official results announced by the Interior Ministry. It is the ...

Austria on Monday marks the 80th anniversary of its annexation by Nazi Germany, with the country's President Alexander Van der Bellen urging young people not to be "taken in" by neo-fascist and ...

The florid faces of the Habsburgs gaze down from the walls of the baroque Giant Hall of the Imperial Palace, framed in white and gold. It’s rather unsettling, as some are babies who didn’t survive and ...

Austria has already produced one far-right leader who sent shockwaves through Europe. And this week, it came within a whisker of doing so again. No-one is saying Norbert Hofer who lost the vote to ...

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The FIFA World Cup 2026™ in Canada, Mexico and the United States will bring an eagerly awaited comeback for Austria, who have featured at seven previous instalments of FIFA’s flagship men’s event but ...

A far-right party has won a parliamentary election in Austria for the first time since the end of World War II, according to a media projection that gives the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) a ...