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Former national leaders sign up for a lucrative job. Apart from being on Europe's political scrap-heap, what links Alfred Gusenbauer, a former chancellor of Austria, Gerhard...

Brown wanted all EU leaders to ‘identify' with the choice of foreign policy chief. The decision to name Catherine Ashton as the European Union's first high representative...

Speculation at the summit. Speculation about who might be appointed to two high-profile EU jobs was never far from the summit, though it was not the subject of a formal...

Austria's chancellor has commissioner concerns. Werner Faymann, Austria's chancellor and the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), has painted himself into a corner...

A man who has pulled his party back from the abyss and climbed to the peak of politics. Werner Faymann always wears a smile. Not a generous smile that oozes warmth, rather...

Grand coalition of moderates suffers reverse; European Union learns lesson from 2000 debacle.

Far-right almost doubles its support, but it may struggle to win seats in government. Austria's two major far-right parties were the primary winners of the...

Although it was a row about the EU that led to the demise of Austria's grand coalition, the election campaign has been dominated by higher prices and immigration. In the...

The Faroes put a lock on coalition politics. Fun and games in the Faroe Islands, where the government coalition has broken up after Jóannes Eidesgaard, the prime...

Wilhelm Molterer has just ended Austria's grand coalition, but its likely restoration could end his career. Wilhelm Molterer, Austria's deputy federal chancellor, is an...

While for Austrians the EU is an irritant, Belgians might be more inclined to sing Ode to Joy than Te Deum on their national holiday. Belgium's national holiday on 21 July...

Differences over the EU among the points of difference in Austria's grand coalition. Austria's People's Party has pulled out of the country's coalition government,...

EU leaders reached a deal on the new Treaty of Lisbon early on Friday morning (19 October) after eight hours of tortuous negotiations had resolved problems raised by Italy...

Trade unions in Europe have warned that a European Commission proposal for ‘EU blue cards' must not lower standards among European workers or stop investment in training...

Less than a year ago, Alfred Gusenbauer, as the leader of Austria's Socialist Party (SPÖ), had a secure place among the also-rans of European politics. Clumsy, unlucky, how...

According to Eurobarometer, a mere 34% of Austrians say that EU membership is a good thing, a lower score even than in Eurosceptic Britain. What has made the Austrians the...

Maria Berger, the leader of the Austrian Socialist MEPs in the European Parliament, is leaving the assembly to become justice minister in the Austrian government that was...

To widespread surprise, Wolfgang Schüssel this week found himself eight points south of the election victory he polled in 2004. All opinion pollsters were wrong-footed;...

Will Austrian voters in the 1 October general elections say “auf Wiedersehen” to their perma-tanned political Frankenstein, Jörg Haider? His disappearance from the...

Members of the Party of European Socialists had planned a sure-to-be-thrilling discussion on ‘fighting the rise of right-wing populism in European democracies' last week,...