VIENNA (AP) — Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Sunday announced that he would meet with far-right politician Herbert Kickl as speculation ... Party has also signed a friendship ...

With Herbert Kickl in pole position to become chancellor of Austria ... the European Peace Facility ― a pot of cash for security. In 2016 the party even signed a “friendship agreement” with Putin’s ...

For years Herbert Kickl was written off by many, including party comrades, as a figure best suited for work behind the scenes. An Eigenbrötler, they joked: someone who bakes their own bread.

The announcement marks a dramatic reversal for the president, a former leader of the left-wing Greens who has long been critical of the FPO and has clashed with its leader Herbert Kickl ...

Schuetze Reporting from Berlin The president of Austria on Monday gave Herbert Kickl, the outspoken leader ... The party is also close to Moscow — it signed a cooperation contract with President ...

The Freedom Party has also signed a friendship agreement in 2016 with Putin’s United Russia Party that it now claims has expired. Kickl has criticized “elites” in Brussels and called for ...