Category: Austria

Austria has ordered four Russian diplomats to leave the country after its security authorities concluded that their activities were incompatible with their diplomatic status. The Foreign Ministry announced the decision on Friday, declaring all four personae non gratae and instructing them to leave Austrian territory, reported by Kronen Zeitung. Three of the diplomats were stationed […]

Vienna’s city centre was brought to a standstill on Thursday as thousands of students and university employees marched against planned cuts to Austria’s higher-education budget. Under the slogan “Code Red – #UnisRetten” (“Save the Universities”), demonstrators filled the streets with banners, chants and a clear message: the country’s universities must not be sacrificed to austerity. […]

VIENNA: The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) has replaced a large poster of party leader Andreas Babler at its headquarters in Vienna with a new display featuring the city’s mayor, Michael Ludwig, according to Kurier. The previous poster had been displayed across two floors of the party’s headquarters on Löwelstraße for several months. It […]

Austria’s planned overhaul of social assistance is taking clearer shape, with new details emerging about how much families could receive for their children. Social Minister Korinna Schumann of the SPÖ is due to meet the nine provincial social affairs councillors on Thursday to discuss the reform, though some provincial representatives are unhappy that key plans […]

A medical clinic in Vienna’s Favoriten district has been sealed by authorities after an inspection uncovered a disturbing combination of alleged fraud, unsafe medical conditions and serious hygiene failures. The surgery, located on Laxenburger Strasse, was closed on Tuesday and its locks were changed after Vienna’s Group for Immediate Measures led a coordinated operation involving […]

A new campaign in Austria is demanding a change that could reshape the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people: automatic Austrian citizenship for children born in the country to parents who have lived there legally for several years, accordinng to News ORF. The initiative, presented by political scientists Rainer Bauböck and Gerd Valchars, […]

Austria’s Public Employment Service may have paid thousands of unemployed people too little money for years, after the country’s highest administrative court found that unemployment benefits had been calculated incorrectly. The case began with a woman from Upper Austria who had been receiving unemployment benefits since 2022. The Austrian Public Employment Service, known as the […]

A telephone call to Vienna airport triggered a bomb scare aboard an Austrian Airlines flight travelling from Tel Aviv to Vienna, forcing the aircraft to make an unscheduled landing in Bulgaria. No danger was found, and all 57 people on board were safe. Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Monday that the threat had […]

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker’s much anticipated government working session at the Chancellery over the weekend has ended with few concrete results, deepening concerns about the direction and cohesion of the three party coalition. The package delivery levy will remain in place. No agreement was reached on how to tackle two tier healthcare. University budgets face […]

Several thousand people in Austria live without health insurance, despite the country’s broadly universal healthcare system. A study commissioned by the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) estimates that up to 0.6 percent of the population, about 57,000 people had no coverage at the end of 2024, reported by Die Presse. “There is no question that […]