Austria is set to become the latest European Union country to tilt further to the right politically. With the country facing an intractable recession and a budget crunch, President Alexander Van der Bellen's has turned to the far-right Freedom Party and its provocative leader Herbert Kickl to form a new government after the governing conservatives failed to pull together a new ruling coalition. Here's a look at the background and geopolitical stakes for change in a country that has long been militarily neutral but appears set to tilt closer to Russia under its first far-right-led government since World War II.
