https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Radical Austrian nationalist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany, it emerged on Tuesday, days after he was deported from Switzerland. https://www.thelocal.at/20240319/germany-issues-entry-ban-to-austrian-far-right-activist-sellner Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:09:44 +0100 germany-issues-entry-ban-to-austrian-far-right-activist-sellner Following a ban from a Swiss canton over the weekend and a total ban from Germany issued today, far-right figurehead Martin Sellner is making headlines - here’s why. https://www.thelocal.at/20240318/explained-austrias-far-right-figure-head-banned-across-europe Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:33:29 +0100 explained-austrias-far-right-figure-head-banned-across-europe Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Friday said it was "right" for German leader Angela Merkel to rule out working with the far right, even after he did the opposite in his previous government. https://www.thelocal.at/20200215/austrias-kurz-backs-merkel-rejection-of-far-right Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:41:01 +0100 austrias-kurz-backs-merkel-rejection-of-far-right Norbert Hofer, who is expected to be formally elected on Saturday to lead Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) into national elections, has gained a reputation as the party's friendly face in contrast to some of its firebrands. https://www.thelocal.at/20190914/norbert-hofer-new-friendly-face-of-austrias-far-right Sat, 14 Sep 2019 13:03:14 +0200 norbert-hofer-new-friendly-face-of-austrias-far-right The leader of an Austrian far-right group has confirmed a media report that he had more extensive contact with the suspect behind deadly mosque attacks in New Zealand than previously admitted. https://www.thelocal.at/20190515/austria-far-right-figure-admits-e-mails-with-nz-attack-suspect Wed, 15 May 2019 14:33:00 +0200 austria-far-right-figure-admits-e-mails-with-nz-attack-suspect More than 20,000 people rallied on Saturday in Vienna against Austria's new conservative-far right coalition over its hardline stances on immigration and social policy, police said. https://www.thelocal.at/20180114/austrians-demonstrate-against-far-right-coalition Sun, 14 Jan 2018 08:57:34 +0100 austrians-demonstrate-against-far-right-coalition Austria's new far-right interior minister sparked an outcry Thursday by saying that his government wants to "concentrate" asylum-seekers, employing a word widely associated with Nazi camps. https://www.thelocal.at/20180112/austrias-interior-minister-provokes-outrage-with-call-to-concentrate-migrants Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:58:31 +0100 austrias-interior-minister-provokes-outrage-with-call-to-concentrate-migrants Turkey on Sunday slammed the incoming Austrian government, a coalition between conservatives and the far-right, for "discrimination" after its programme contained a pledge that Vienna will not agree to Ankara joining the EU. https://www.thelocal.at/20171217/turkey-slams-austria-discrimination-over-new-government-programme Sun, 17 Dec 2017 13:09:54 +0100 turkey-slams-austria-discrimination-over-new-government-programme Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was in triumphant mood Saturday after agreeing a coalition deal with the conservatives, capping a year of successes for Europe's nationalist movements. https://www.thelocal.at/20171216/nothing-to-fear-as-austrian-far-right-enters-government Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:06:19 +0100 nothing-to-fear-as-austrian-far-right-enters-government Austria's conservatives and the far-right agreed a coalition deal on Friday, two months after elections that saw the Alpine country move to the right and capping a year of successes for Europe's nationalists. https://www.thelocal.at/20171216/whizz-kid-forms-right-wing-austrian-government Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:31:33 +0100 whizz-kid-forms-right-wing-austrian-government Austria's hard-right Freedom Party has a shot at sharing power after elections on Sunday, having narrowly lost out in a presidential vote last year. https://www.thelocal.at/20171014/how-far-right-parties-are-faring-across-europe Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:59:53 +0200 how-far-right-parties-are-faring-across-europe The far-right Identitarian youth movement has placed a veil on one of Vienna’s most famous statues as a protest against what they call “the Islamisation of Austria”. https://www.thelocal.at/20161130/identitarian-group-veils-maria-theresa-statue Wed, 30 Nov 2016 12:20:02 +0100 identitarian-group-veils-maria-theresa-statue A 45-year-old German woman who’s a member of the radical far-right Reichsbürger group has been arrested in the Austrian state of Carinthia and deported to Slovenia. https://www.thelocal.at/20161111/german-member-of-far-right-group-deported-from-austria Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:03:25 +0100 german-member-of-far-right-group-deported-from-austria More than 60 prominent Austrians have signed an open letter calling on the governor of Upper Austria, Josef Pühringer (ÖVP), to ban a controversial right-wing congress which is scheduled to take place in the state at the end of this month. https://www.thelocal.at/20161018/prominent-austrians-call-for-a-ban-on-right-wing-congress-in-linz Tue, 18 Oct 2016 16:48:12 +0200 prominent-austrians-call-for-a-ban-on-right-wing-congress-in-linz Clashes between right-wing activists and left-wing protestors led to violence, with 13 people injured in Vienna on Saturday, including four police. https://www.thelocal.at/20160612/pepper-spray-and-13-injured-in-left-right-clashes-in-vienna Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:00:09 +0200 pepper-spray-and-13-injured-in-left-right-clashes-in-vienna The leader of Austria’s populist Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, has defended his invitation to the controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders to speak in Vienna, saying that he is an “interesting European politician”. https://www.thelocal.at/20150311/strache-defends-inviting-wilders-to-hofburg Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:29:52 +0100 strache-defends-inviting-wilders-to-hofburg A series of protests saw thousands of police on the streets of Vienna, with one police officer hospitalized with serious injuries by a firework thrown by a protestor on Friday evening. https://www.thelocal.at/20150130/cop-seriously-injured-in-right-wing-ball-protest Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:14:00 +0100 cop-seriously-injured-in-right-wing-ball-protest