“The talks on membership between the EU and Turkey should be ended taking into account the system systematic violations of human rights and essential democratic values, and because the Copenhagen Criteria [rules defining if…
Angela Merkel clashed with Austria’s chancellor at their first meeting yesterday when she insisted that it was wrong for EU nations not to take their share of refugees. Sebastian Kurz,…
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday his new coalition would focus on fighting anti-Semitism, after Israel made it clear it would not work directly with any ministers from the far-right party now…
The centre of political gravity in Austria shifted to the right after the conservative Austrian People’s party (ÖVP) came out top in national elections, making its 31-year-old leader, Sebastian Kurz, the world’s…