A radical leader edges towards transforming Austria’s democracy, sparking widespread concern.

so for those of us who believe in the value of liberal democracy and its institutions, how worried should we be? A lot is being written about the accelerators of Austria’s nationalist phenomenon.

We also don’t want to wake up in an authoritarian system like in Hungary,” protester Martin Fuchs said. “We want to maintain democracy in Austria and strengthen it.” ...

Austria wore out the cordon sanitaire long ago. For much of the postwar era, the Freedom party was excluded by a series of grand coalitions (barring a single early-1980s coalition with the Social ...

Democracy, it is often heard these days ... disinformation and general malaise. Austria could get its first far-right chancellor since World War II. France is on its fifth prime minister in ...

Austria, discusses democratic backsliding across Europe. This episode is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy. In this special seri ...