The far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the conservative People's Party (ÖVP), currently negotiating a coalition government in the Alpine state, are planning massive attacks on the working class and on migrants.

Since then, the conservatives have agreed to form a government with the far-right under a Chancellor Kickl. Kickl has successfully lobbied by promising the capital associations that he would implement the economic programme of the conservatives if he could take over the chancellery and important ministries.

As the senior governing coalition partner, the Freedom Party (FPO), led by Herbert Kickl, is expected to implement even harsher anti-Muslim policies in Austria

If the German political class generally pays limited attention to Austrian politics, its southern neighbor’s convulsed start to the year has forced them to ask what it means for Germany. After Chancellor Karl Nehammer from Austria’s center-right People’s Party (ÖVP) announced his resignation,

Most recently, the economy shrank by 0.1% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2024, revised downwards from an initial +0.3%. Unless an economic miracle happened at the end of last year, with the economy having defied gravity like the Wicked Witch of the West, 2024 will have marked the second consecutive year of recession.

Photo: PA Left-wing parties Labour, the Social Democrats and the Greens may unite to back one candidate in this year’s presidential election. The Social Democrats and the Greens have now said ...

Having leaned so hard on defending democracy during the campaign only to see voters narrowly choose the autocrats, Democrats were left without a unifying message, let alone a consensus messenger, to describe the new president and his allies.

Democrats are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s move to freeze funding approved in two of former President Biden’s signature laws. Trump issued an executive order pausing the ...

Outgoing Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison said in a Sunday interview that Democrats should focus on building on the existing infrastructure from the past election cycle.

You’d think adults could conduct themselves like, well, adults. Yet, when those adults are liberal Democrats, you’d be better off dealing with a teenage girl (no offense to teenage girls).

Smith noted, regarding the focus on transgender issues, the Democrats emphasized “issues ... of an “emergency 25% tariffs.” He posted on social media, “Petro’s denial of these flights ...

These policies can work. Recent research shows how gender quotas put in place in the 1990s by the Swedish Social Democrats, requiring local candidates to alternate between men and women ...