Austria

After the 'Ibiza Scandal' which brought down former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' government coalition in May, he won the Austrian snap elections on Sunday. It looks like Kurz will have several options for forming a new government.

Now Austria is wondering just how much influence the big northern neighbor has. This includes the media, but also Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, the ÖVP's…

"Europe is a constellation of countries which decided to cooperate on the basis of common values", Merkel said in Zagreb. "We are dealing with populist…

In 1977, a teenager from Vienna started organizing concerts with the late British Blues guru Alexis Korner and some Austrian acts. At that point Georg Leitner did not know he would still be doing that same job four decades later, but with a lot more artists and acts. Today, Leitner is 'Mr. Quality Music'. Countless Soul, R&B, Jazz and World…

Herbert Kickl, Austria's Interior Minister, has been in office for only 13 months, but he is already a record holder. In the past seven decades, nobody in a…

Today the central Austrian municipality Hochkar became an official disaster zone. Here and in other regions, roads were closed. The famous Hochkar Alpine Road…