Forecasts indicating a third year of economic contraction may force Austria’s new government to find additional budget consolidation measures, according to its new finance minister.

It is easy to miss the headquarters of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), which is run by a North Korean from a modest house on the outskirts of Vienna, a city with a long reputation as a nest of spies.

In 2007, she married Archduke Carl Christian, great-grandson of Emperor Charles I, and was the mother of five children.

Austria will not accept asylum seekers turned back at the German border, the Interior Ministry in Vienna told dpa on Sunday after the parties seeking to form Germany's next coalition put forward a plan including that.

Austria has 120 victims of human trafficking every year. They are increasingly being recruited via the internet or social media, as a new report by

Three parties say they have reached a deal to form a new centrist Austrian government, five months after an election was won by a far-right party that later failed in an attempt to form an administration.

Austria's new three-party coalition government comprising the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the liberal NEOS was sworn in on Monday, ending months of political deadlock in the Alpine nation.

Just months before becoming chancellor of Austria on Monday, Christian Stocker was a party functionary with no ministerial experience, fast approaching retirement age and barely known outside the political bubble.

More than five months after elections, Austria appointed a conservative-led government entrusted with pulling the economy out of recession while cutting the budget deficit and reversing a surge in right-wing populism.

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s new government took office on Monday, with Christian Stocker taking over as chancellor at the head of a previously untried three-party coalition after a record five-month wait for a new administration.

Austria's three main centrist parties in parliament on Thursday (February 27) reached a deal to form a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) that won the last parliamentary election five months ago. Trump says difficult dealing with Ukraine, may be easier with Russia

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