The Austrian government is considering buying one of the country’s best-known private art collections in a bid to help save its owner’s company. Collector and businessman Karlheinz Essl has appealed ...

A non-recyclable plastics tax is planned to fund the VAT cut to 5%, although details have yet to be ironed out.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BERLIN (AP) — Austria swore in its first ...

Austrian government MPs presented a bill on Wednesday which would continue to allow smoking in bars and restaurants, despite a huge groundswell of opposition. The bill, which would overturn a ban due ...

Kurz's conservative People's Party (OeVP) entered coalition talks with the populist Freedom Party (FPOe) of Heinz-Christian Strache... "I am very optimistic that we can achieve our aim of wrapping up ...

Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) has reaffirmed its ambition to lead the country and launched a new party-controlled ...

Historically neutral, the country is set to double military spending, even in the midst of a budget crisis, as its neighbors also spend big to counter Russia. By Jim Tankersley and Christopher F.

A moral stand by a Catholic bishop, who refused to allow a border fence to keep out refugees to be built on church land, has helped to change Austrian government policy on border security. “It is the ...

VIENNA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Austria deported an Afghan national back to his home country on Tuesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power there four years ago, and the conservative-led ...