Category: Austria

A Viennese courtroom delivered justice on Wednesday as the ringleader of a brutal gang confrontation received a six-year prison sentence, concluding a case that laid bare the violent underbelly of Vienna’s street conflicts. The presiding judge’s words resonated with stark clarity: “This kind of vigilante justice has no place here.” The principal defendant, twenty five […]

Austria’s Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen delivered a strong and thoughtful speech at the traditional New Year’s reception for diplomats in Vienna, using the occasion to sharply criticize violence, lawlessness, and power politics on the global stage, according to OE24. His message was clear: the world is drifting away from international law, and even […]

Vienna Airport in Austria became the scene of a major drug bust when border police stopped a young woman carrying a suitcase filled with illegal drugs. The incident took place on January 18 during routine security checks at the airport. Officers from the Schwechat City Police Command were carrying out baggage inspections using X-ray machines […]

Vienna Airport is preparing for a bumpy ride ahead. After celebrating a record-breaking year in 2025 with 32.6 million passengers passing through its terminals, the airport’s management announced on Tuesday that they expect only about 30 million travelers in 2026; a significant drop that reflects the changing landscape of European aviation, according to Austrian News […]

Austria’s inflation rate rose sharply in 2025, intensifying pressure on households and leaving the country among the eurozone’s worst performers. According to Statistics Austria, consumer prices increased by an annual average of 3.6 percent, “noticeably higher than in almost all other euro-area countries,” government economists said. Much of the renewed inflation was felt where it […]

A 24-year-old man became the latest victim of Vienna’s escalating street violence when an armed assailant robbed him at knifepoint late Thursday night in the city’s Rudolfsheim Fünfhaus district, according to KURIER. The attack unfolded around 11:30 p.m. on Sechshauser Straße as the young man made his way home through the residential neighborhood. An unidentified […]

Austria faces a seismic shift in its healthcare landscape as the nation’s top health insurance official warns that hospital closures are inevitable, not due to budget cuts, but because the current system has reached its limits. Peter McDonald, head of the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK), told the Krone newspaper that fundamental restructuring is unavoidable. […]

Barely had Austria’s new ambassador to Russia, Gerhard Sailler, presented his credentials to President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin when an unexpected appointment followed—this time at a Moscow courtroom. Austria’s embassy in the Russian capital has been sued by Russia’s state pension and social insurance fund over a missed administrative deadline, according to entries in […]

Austria Police Crack Down on Alcohol and Drug-Impaired Driving in Major Overnight Operation Klagenfurt: In a stark reminder of the growing dangers posed by alcohol and drug use behind the wheel, Austrian police launched a major traffic enforcement operation in the southern province of Carinthia, seizing 30 driver’s licenses in a single night, according to […]

Austria’s governing coalition has announced its strategy for implementing the European Union’s new common asylum regulations, introducing measures that significantly expand detention powers and enforcement mechanisms for asylum seekers, according to Kronen Zeitung. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner of the conservative ÖVP, alongside State Secretary Jörg Leichtfried of the Social Democrats and Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger […]