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Sebastian Kurz has pledged to take a hard line on refugees and prevent a European migration crisis

Austria shifts to right as conservative star elected

Young conservative star Sebastian Kurz is on track to become Austria's next leader, projections of today's parliamentary election result showed.

News • 15 Oct 17

EasyJet to set up new company in Austria to protect its flying rights once Britain leaves the European Union

Brexit: EasyJet to set up new company in Austria

British budget airline EasyJet has chosen to apply for an air operator certificate in Austria.

Business • 14 Jul 17

Austrian police pictured at the Brenner Pass border crossing point in May 2016

Austria plans to impose controls on Italian border

Austria is planning to impose border controls and possibly deploy troops to cut the number of migrants crossing from Italy, defence officials said.

Brenner Pass • 04 Jul 17

Adolf Hitler was born in the house in April 1889

Hitler house expropriation stands, Austria court rules

Austria's highest court has ruled in favour of last year's controversial expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born, ending a long-running bitter saga between the state and the former owner.

World • 30 Jun 17

The trial is taking place in Hungary as authorities say that is where the refugees died

Four on trial in Hungary over murder of 71 refugees

Four men have gone on trial in Hungary charged with murdering 71 refugees found suffocated to death in the back of a lorry at the height of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015.

World • 21 Jun 17

Only about 30 women out of a potential 200 have taken up an offer of free DNA tests to identify the second baby

Austrian hospital faces €90k bill for mixing up babies

An Austrian health authority has been ordered to pay €90,000 in damages over the mix-up of two babies almost 30 years ago.

World • 12 Jun 17

Airbus mixes up Australia with Austria in accounts typo

Airbus latest to trip up on tricky typo

Austria and Australia are 16,000 km and two keystrokes apart, as European aircraft manufacturer Airbus discovered to its chagrin this week.

Business • 20 Apr 17

The man was seen in pictures posing outside Hitler's birth house in Braunau

Hitler doppelganger arrested in Austria

Austrian police have arrested an Adolf Hitler lookalike after he was spotted wandering around the Nazi dictator's hometown sporting his infamous moustache and side parting, a spokesman said.

News • 13 Feb 17

It is not yet clear what will happen with the yellow corner house at 15 Salzburger Vorstadt Street

Austria to seize Hitler's birth house

Austrian MPs have approved the expropriation of the house where Adolf Hitler was born, ending years of bitter legal wrangling, but it is unclear what will now happen to the building.

News • 15 Dec 16

Alexander van der Bellen (L) and Norbert Hofer (R) are neck-and-neck in the polls

Tetchy final debate before Austrian election

Tetchy accusations of lying dominated the final televised presidential debate in Austria between far-right candidate Norbert Hofer and former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen last night.

News • 02 Dec 16

Belgium and Ireland have sold 100-year paper in private placements

Austria planning first 70 year bond sale

Austria's long-dated government bond yields held near 16-month highs today as the country pushed ahead with plans to sell its first 70-year debt.

Business • 25 Oct 16

Norbert Hofer (L) lost the election to Alexander Van der Bellen (R) by less than 1% of the vote

Austrian court annuls presidential election result

Austria's presidential run-off election must be held again, the country's Constitutional Court has ruled, handing the Freedom Party's candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the EU.

News • 01 Jul 16

Protesters at a rally against increased border controls at the Austrian-Italian border crossing

Austria passes tough new asylum rules

Austria has passed tough new asylum measures which could be activated if politicians believe public order is threatened.

News • 28 Apr 16

CEO of HypoLandesbank Vorarlberg quits after the bank was mentioned in the 'Panama Papers'

Austrian bank's CEO quits on Panama Papers report

The chief executive of HypoLandesbank Vorarlberg, an Austrian lender mentioned in the "Panama Papers" data leak, has become one of the first top bankers to quit over reports based on those files.

Business • 07 Apr 16

Greece will begin sending back refugees and migrants to Turkey, with the first group of returned people due to arrive in Turkey on Monday

Migrant numbers arriving in Germany plummet

The number of migrants entering Germany from Austria fell more than seven times in March to below 5,000 due to the introduction of border controls by countries along the Balkans migrant route, an interior ministry official said today.

News • 02 Apr 16

Austria has come under fire for capping its intake of refugees

Austria to shun refugee quota system - minister

Austria does not want to take part in any quota system for distributing refugees among European countries because it has done enough on its own, its defence minister was quoted as saying.

News • 06 Mar 16

Migrants and refugees rest as they wait to board buses to go to a refugee center after crossing Croatian-Slovenian border in Rigonce

Germany critical of Austrian border fence plan

Germany has said Europe's ongoing migrant crisis cannot be solved through the construction of fences or walls at borders, after Austria announced plans to fence up its border with Slovenia to slow the flow of migrants.

News • 28 Oct 15

Berlin announced that the temporary measure would be taken first on the southern frontier with Austria

Germany reinstates border controls

German officers have carried out the first passport checks at the country's border with Austria, after Berlin's shock decision earlier to reintroduce such controls to halt a surge in refugee numbers.

News • 14 Sep 15

Germany has announced it is letting Syrians seek asylum regardless of where they enter the EU

Germany urges EU partners to agree refugee quotas

Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany has told its European partners they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception centre at the Serbian border.

News • 07 Sep 15

Witnesses said the vehicle hurtled into one of the main pedestrian shopping streets of Graz

Three dead after car ploughs into crowd in Austria

Three people were killed and 34 others were injured when a man drove a 4x4 into a crowded pedestrian street in the southern Austrian city of Graz.

News • 20 Jun 15

The Austrian parliament president said: 'April 24, 1915 marks the beginning of the persecutions, which ended in genocide'

Austrian MPs recognise Armenian 'genocide'

Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Austria in protest over Austrian politicians' condemnation of the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turk forces 100 years ago as "genocide".

News • 22 Apr 15

Facebook has been accused of engaging in delaying tactics

Facebook seeks to halt privacy case in Austria

Facebook has presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy.

News • 09 Apr 15