Prosecutors are seeking to lift the immunity of the far-right leader in Austria to investigate him for allegedly giving false testimony, a parliament spokesman said on Thursday.

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Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO ... a number that Herbert Kickl’s FPO falls short of. So the FPO “can only form a ...

FPO leader Herbert Kickl has said he would be chancellor in ... Neos rather than his current coalition partner, the Greens. Austria has not been governed by a three-party coalition since ...

A spokesperson for the FPO referred Reuters to a report by news agency APA quoting a statement by the parliamentary party as saying Kickl had spoken the truth in his testimony in April.

In a statement on Facebook, Herbert Kickl said that the President had broken with the “tried and tested normal processes” of Austria’s republic, by not entrusting the winner of the election ...

The far-right Freedom Party was blocked in Austria as on Tuesday Austria's president asked incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer to form a new government. All other parties refused to work with the ...

FPO leader Herbert Kickl has said he would be chancellor in ... Neos rather than his current coalition partner, the Greens. Austria has not been governed by a three-party coalition since ...

Austria has not had a three-party coalition since independence in 1955, and many are looking at the collapse of neighbouring Germany's with concern. FPO leader Herbert Kickl has warned against ...

FPO leader Herbert Kickl has said he would be chancellor in an FPO-led government ... to turn to the liberal Neos rather than his current coalition partner, the Greens. Austria has not been governed ...