Shortly before midnight, waiters serve gin and tonics on the rooftop terrace of the David Kempinski in Tel Aviv. Far below, the lights of this city of half a million are glittering. A gentle breeze ...

"Whizz-kid", "Basti Fantasti" and "Messiah" -- just some of the monikers given to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz when in 2017 he formed a coalition with the far-right to become the world's ...