In a historic move, Walter Rosenkranz, a member of the far-right Freedom Party, was elected speaker of the Austrian parliament. Last month, the Freedom Party had a strong performance in national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flag of Austria. Stock photo: Getty Images The Austrian Parliament has passed a resolution calling for stronger efforts to ...

(JNS) A new exhibition on the fate of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust has been inaugurated at the Austrian Parliament, in a major step forward in acknowledging the country’s Nazi past. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austrians went to the polls on Sept. 29, handing victory to the far-right, anti-migration Freedom Party (FPO). The party gained 29 ...

VIENNA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday elected its first ever far-right speaker after his Freedom Party won last month's parliamentary election and many ...

Austria's parliament passed a law on Thursday banning schoolgirls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf. The coalition government, made up of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social ...

UNHCR is worried about new draft changes to the Austrian Asylum Act that further restrict asylum seeker rights and could, if implemented, be harmful to the interests of children in particular. The ...

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority in favour of a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and could deepen ...

For the first time in many years, a woman may become the new president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ...