Category: Austria

Former Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) has been found guilty in the false statement trial and sentenced to eight months’ conditional imprisonment! His former head of cabinet Bernhard Bonelli received a conditional prison sentence of six months for the same offence. The defence intends to appeal. The judgements are therefore not legally binding. There were […]

BRUSSELS: Iran continues to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for commercial nuclear use despite U.N. pressure to stop it, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday, adding he wanted to visit Tehran next month for the first time in a year to end the “drifting apart.” Speaking to Reuters after he briefed EU foreign […]

Following the discovery of three dead bodies with gunshot wounds in the town of Bad Vöslau on Saturday afternoon, the dead bodies are identified. According to Stefan Pfandler, head of the Lower Austrian State Office of Criminal Investigation, the owner of the flat and two of his friends are killed. Interrogations of relatives and the […]

BBc reports: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian sex offender who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, could be moved from a high-security prison, local media reports. Fritzl, now 88, was jailed for life in 2009 in a case that shocked the world. Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports […]

Marlene Engelhorn has been fighting for years for a more equitable tax system in her country. A Citizens’ Council will be formed in Austria to decide on how to distribute the money.A heiress in Austria will set up an assembly for citizens to give away the 25 million euro fortune she inherited.Marlene Engelhorn, a 31-year-old […]

A Tajik man being held in connection with an alleged terrorist plot targeting Cologne Cathedral remains in custody after two weeks as a result of a European arrest warrant issued by Austria, police said on January 7. Deportation proceedings are under way relating to the 30-year-old Tajik national, who was arrested after police searched a […]

Romania and Bulgaria have struck an agreement with Austria to partially join Europe’s borderless Schengen travel zone by March 2024, Bucharest and Sofia have confirmed.The political agreement will allow Romania and Bulgaria to join the Schengen zone by air and sea only, with further negotiations to follow on land borders, the Romanian interior ministry said […]

Austria has softened its veto on the Schengen accession of Romania and Bulgaria by proposing the abolition of border checks at airports.The idea, colloquially known as “Air Schengen,” would amount to partial membership in the passport-free area, which currently encompasses 27 countries, including 23 European Union states, and over 423 million citizens.Border checks at land […]

VIENNA, Dec – Austria, which has led opposition within the European Union to Romania and Bulgaria joining the Schengen open-travel area, said on Monday it was willing to relent but only on plane travel and in exchange for tighter security at the EU’s external border.At a meeting of the bloc’s interior ministers a year ago […]

Kashmir Cultural Centre, Vienna along with SPO (Social Democratic Party) of Austria organised a discussion session on “Socio-Economic development in Kashmir-A people’s perspective” at their Political Academy WBA in Vienna. The event was inaugurated by Mr. Wolgang Markytan Federal Director of Education of Social Democratic Party of Austria. Mr. Markytan introduced Mr. Naeem Khan, General […]