Austria

Two downfalls hint at a return to more respectable politics in countries at the heart of the continent.

Not all languages use the same terms to describe skin colour, writes PETER TRUDGILL.

PETER TRUDGILL on a recent decision to drop a common Austrian phrase due to racial sensitivities

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

More weird news from Europe, including a fake Kanye West gig in a field near Paris, a cow-riding German and the Austrian punk singer who vaccinates his own fans

It is not too late for Iran and world powers to clinch a deal to revive the 2015 nuclear accord, says the European Union’s foreign policy chief.  Josep Borrell said an agreement was “very close” after Sunday’s meeting in Vienna and could make the Middle East safer by bringing aid to millions of Iranians hit […]

As a senior minister becomes mired in a major corruption case, what is it about the country that makes it so susceptible to such scandals? When Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s first government was capsized in 2019 by the corruption of his coalition partners, it was largely shrugged off as the sort of accident that happens […]

The news you might have missed from around Europe, selected by Steve Anglesey. A group of hapless would-be thieves were arrested in Nancy, north-east France, after a disastrous attempt to rob a friend’s stash of several thousand euros. Two men, one armed with a hunting rifle, aborted their first raid when a woman they did […]

CATHRIN SCHAER on the latest European country coming to terms with an atrocity. This week’s terror attack in Vienna was the first in the Austrian capital since 1981, when Palestinian gunmen stormed its main synagogue and killed two people. Monday evening’s atrocity was also the most murderous, resulting in four deaths and more than a […]