Category: Austria

VIENNA: EU Council President António Costa met Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker in Vienna on Tuesday to discuss the European Union’s next long-term budget, which will cover the years 2028 to 2034. Austria is one of the EU’s net contributor countries. These countries pay more into the bloc’s budget than they receive through European programmes and […]

In Austria, a new wave of protests is building against a law that bans girls under 14 from wearing headscarves in school. The left wing youth organisation LINKS has announced a school strike for Friday, 9 October, urging students to stay away from class in solidarity with those affected by the rule, as reported by […]

Iran’s atomic energy chief, Mohammad Eslami, was conspicuously absent from this week’s key International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) annual meeting in Vienna, sparking a fresh diplomatic clash between Tehran and the West. According to The Associated Press, Eslami was unable to attend because he remains subject to an international travel ban. A special exemption from […]

The new school year has begun in Vienna, including for students aiming straight for vocational training and apprenticeships. But the outlook on the apprenticeship market is far from bright. There are now about ten times as many young people searching for apprenticeships as there are open positions, creating a tight and competitive landscape for school […]

VIENNA: A persistent humming noise that had annoyed residents around the Russian embassy in Vienna for months finally fell silent on Friday, as reported by Kurier. The disturbance, which had been present since at least May, disappeared suddenly in the afternoon. After the Austrian news agency APA reported on the nuisance on Tuesday, relevant city […]

VIENNA: More than every second person living in Vienna now has a migration background, according to fresh 2025 figures from Statistics Austria. The data show that 51.3 percent of the city’s population around 1.019 million people fall into this category. Under Austria’s official definition, a person has a migration background if both parents were born […]

VIENNA: Austria’s Public Employment Service, known as AMS, is defending its training programmes after a jobseeker from Lower Austria claimed that some course participants spent time playing golf, table tennis and going for walks. The young man told the Kronen Zeitung that health problems had forced him to leave his former profession. He was waiting […]

Austria’s Integration Minister Claudia Bauer is urging the government to move quickly on a new integration law, saying the country “urgently” needs the legislation. Bauer wants the reform of social assistance and the related integration obligations law to be ready by October so they can take effect at the beginning of next year. She made […]

The number of far right offences in Austria continued to rise in the first half of 2026, with 862 incidents recorded across the country. The figure was nearly 10 percent higher than during the same period last year, according to figures provided by Interior Minister Gerhard Karner in response to a parliamentary question from Social […]

EU Asylum Applications Fall to Lowest Level Since 2021 MALTA: Asylum applications across the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland have fallen once more, continuing a downward trend that has now lasted more than a year. Between January and June, the EU Asylum Agency (EUAA) recorded around 332,000 new applications; a drop of roughly 67,000, or […]