Citing concerns over the protection of national sovereignty, central European nation Austria has announced its withdrawal from the United Nations (UN) Migration Compact, which claims mass migration is “inevitable, necessary, and desirable”, and that it will not be signing the treaty.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has set his sights on the Italian populist coalition saying that if the European Commission does not act, the Italian budget could take Europe “hostage”.
Austrian police have offered the public a 2,000 euro reward to identify a man who robbed a Vienna bank while disguising himself as a woman wearing the Islamic veil.
Populist Austrian Vice Chancellor and leader of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) Heinz-Christian Strache has said that Turks in Austria who voted for Islamist Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should return to Turkey.
BERLIN (AP) – Austria has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union with a pledge to better secure the 28-nation bloc’s external borders.
Deportations of failed asylum seekers and illegal migrants have increased by 36 percent under populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) Interior Minister Herbert Kickl compared to 2017 as Austria looks to provide more information to the public on deportation cases.
Austria’s conservative-populist coalition government will close seven radical Islamic mosques and expel dozens of foreign-funded imams with populist Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache remarking, “We’re only just getting started.”
State Department reporters were in a tizzy Tuesday over an exclusive interview U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell gave to Breitbart News on Sunday.
BERLIN (AP) – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is urging the European Union to cut management costs as Vienna prepares to take over the bloc’s rotating presidency next month. Austria is one country that has opposed a bigger EU budget. Brussels
(AP) — Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has rescued 366 migrants attempting the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.
VIENNA — Austria’s chancellor said Tuesday he is powerless to stop an upcoming commemoration of a 1945 massacre that has become a magnet for supporters of the Nazis’ Croatian allies and far-right sympathizers.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has opposed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposal to link European Union funding to migrant quotas, arguing for stronger borders instead of migrant redistribution.
(AFP) — Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz clashed over immigration in their first meeting Wednesday, with the seasoned German chancellor saying Vienna’s resistance to sharing out refugees across the bloc was “wrong”.
Theresa May has invited the conservative Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to “visit the UK in the near future”.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland have predicted a “year of great battles” with the EU establishment at a summit in Budapest.
Populist-Nationalism, Right and Left
Here’s a headline that a lot of people—especially among the entrenched elite—won’t want to see: “2017 Was the Year of False Promise in the Fight Against Populism: The populist wave seems like it may have crested. The data proves otherwise.” In other words, the populists are still on the march. Uh oh.
Austria’s new conservative-nationalist coalition is set to get tough on illegal migration and migrants who refuse to integrate into Austrian society.
Left-wing protestors attempted to break through police barricades outside the presidential palace during the inauguration of the new Austrian government Monday morning, as 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz became the world’s youngest national leader.
Austria’s incoming Chancellor and current Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has rejected migrant redistribution quotas, as the European Union remains deeply divided on migrant issues following a summit this week.
Austria’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the right wing populist Freedom Party (FPO) have agreed to slash benefits for migrants and introduce five-year residency rules to curb welfare for European Union (EU) nationals.
German satirical magazine Titanic has again caused controversy, referring to Austria’s incoming Chancellor Sebastian Kurz as “Baby Hitler” while picturing him alongside the car crash that led to the death of former Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Jorg Haider. The picture of Kurz next
The leader of Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) has vowed to negotiate for a government programme of “high quality” and in the interests of the Austrian people as negotiations between his party and the leading Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP).
German satirical magazine Titanic posted the picture on Twitter which shows Austrian conservative Sebastian Kurz, who won last Sunday’s election, with a target over his chest.
Austria’s election winner Sebastian Kurz, who may form a coalition with the far-right, vowed “zero tolerance” on anti-Semitism in any future government, in an interview published in Israel on Tuesday.
The unelected president of the European Union’s (EU) executive arm has urged the democratically elected Austrian premier to form a “pro-European” government.
The Bundestag chairman of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alexander Gauland expressed joy at the results of Sunday’s Austrian election saying the country had now become a “bulwark against mass-migration”.
Algerian millionaire and political activist Rachid Nekkaz has promised to pay the €150 fines of any Muslim woman caught wearing the full-face Islamic veil in Austria after the ban on the garment comes into effect on October 1st. Mr. Nekkaz (pictured,
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s foreign minister says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking his country in a “false and dangerous direction” away from the prerequisites needed for European Union membership.
Lampedusa mayor Salvatore Martello likened Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to a “neo-Nazi” after Kurz suggested that migrants should be kept on Italian islands rather than allowed to move north.
Following the surprise resignation of former Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, the Austrian coalition government has called an early national election this Autumn.
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s junior government coalition partner chose a new leader Sunday and gave him the unprecedented authority he demanded as a condition for leading his party into expected early elections this fall. Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz told reporters
BERLIN (AP) – Austria’s chancellor says he expects an early election this fall as his coalition partner mulls its future leadership.
Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, the Austrian foreign secretary has said.
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Austria’s foreign minister says closing the so-called “Balkan route” to migrants seeking to reach central and northern Europe was the right move.
A 16-year-old Chechen migrant who became infamous in Austria after being involved in the beating of a young student has had his home raided after he sent threatening messages to Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.
In reaction to the proposed ban on the Islamic headscarf in new public sector worker legislation, Austrian Muslim MP Muna Duzdar says the law could be extended to remove crosses in Austrian schools.
A newly released study of migrants in Austria has revealed that whilst the vast majority are pro-democratic, many think Austrians live too liberally and have too much freedom.
Liberal European Union (EU) leaders have attacked Austria for proposing asylum centres are created outside the block to help solve the migrant crisis.
After Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz made good on his promise to veto European Union membership talks for Turkey, the country has vowed to retaliate.
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has said that it would be “fatal” to consider the migrant crisis over. He also criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her migrant policy and dominance in the European Union (EU).
