Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent ...

Austria was a major imperial power in Central Europe for centuries in various state guises, until the fall of its Habsburg dynasty after World War One. But its position at the geographical heart of ...

The following article is a part of a series of brief country profiles for the EU-28 ahead of the European elections in May. Austria joined the EU only in 1995, having traditionally been a neutral ...