Herbert Kickl, the leader of Austria’s Freedom party (FPÖ), won’t have it all his own way in forming a government, as Ben Hall says (“Far-right success will echo beyond Austria”, Opinion, January 16).

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 ...

Herbert Kickl on his way out of Vienna's Hofburg Palace following talks with Austria's president, Alexander Van der Bellen, ...