Category: Austria

The International Energy Agency (IEA) will guide nations in their energy and climate policies and lay out a road map, IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol has said. Birol addressed leaders who gathered for the 49th G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, last week. “I spoke about the issues of energy security, clean energy and climate change. […]

Travellers on an intercity train in Austria were startled on Sunday when a recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played on board. Instead of the normal announcements, a crowd could also be heard shouting “Heil Hitler” and “Sieg Heil” over the train’s speaker system. The operator said there had been several such incidents in […]

The Austria government is under pressure to act as rising prices continue to erode living standards. The Austrian government, like others across Europe, is under pressure to bring inflation under control. Along with Latvia, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Estonia, the country’s price rises are among the steepest in the eurozone, and it is consumers that bear […]

VIENNA: About 50 activists – mostly migrants from Sudan – assembled in the centre of Vienna to protest against the reactionary civil war between the two most powerful Generals – al-Burhan and Hemedti. This bloody conflict has already forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Sister Ishraga Mustafa Hamid, an organiser of the Sudanese […]

One of the world’s oldest newspapers still in print, Austria’s Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision on Thursday by the country’s parliament. The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily. Founded in 1703 under the name […]

VIENNA: About 100 Syrian migrants assembled on 23 April in the centre of Vienna to protest against the plans of Arab regimes to “normalize” relations with Assad and to bring him back into the Arab League. These plans have been advocated by Saudi-Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Tunisia and other regimes. Türkiye is also prepared […]

SALZBURG: According to the media reports, the voters settled their account with ruling parties in State Parliament. Die ÖVP was placed as number 1 with a loss of 7.4 % votes. “The losses have turned out to be higher than expected. ÖVP governor Wilfried Haslauer cannot understand the voters’ reckoning. The “country is in a […]

Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg discusses Austria’s military non-alignment policy. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted countries such as Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership. Austria, however, has shown no interest in joining the alliance. It has been neutral since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1955. In fact, Austria’s law of neutrality […]

Fox News reported; Austrian police issued a terror threat warning Thursday for Vienna, saying there was an “abstract” danger for Syrian institutions in the city. The alert came a day after police in Austria’s capital warned of ” a possible “Islamist-motivated attack” on churches and other houses of worship, citing undisclosed information received by the […]

Ten people have been killed in several avalanches across the Austrian and Swiss Alps over the weekend. Tourists from New Zealand, China and Germany were among the dead at a number of different ski resorts. Austrian authorities put in place a level four avalanche alert – the second highest – following intense snowfall and wind […]