Three mainstream political parties in Austria said on Thursday that they had reached an agreement to form a new government that excludes the far right, ending five months of roller coaster negotiations after an election last fall. The coalition is set to announce ministerial posts on Friday, but the new chancellor is likely to be…
An effort by the head of Austria’s Freedom Party to form a coalition government collapsed on Wednesday, ending, for now, his chances of leading the country’s first far-right national government since World War II. The Freedom Party’s leader, Herbert Kickl, and the conservative Austrian People’s Party failed to reach an agreement on forming a coalition,…
The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future and his country’s longstanding firewall against political extremism. It did not go as he hoped. In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader…