Category: Austria

Austria’s ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with giving false evidence at a parliamentary committee. Mr Kurz, who resigned in 2021, was accused of misleading the committee when asked about appointments to the state holding company. If found guilty the former People’s Party leader could face up to three years in prison. Mr Kurz denied […]

The European Commission’s proposal to ease current restrictions on genetically modified crops has riled up EU organic farming leader Austria and its farmers. “I think it’s outrageous… They have a nerve even considering this,” organic farmer Beate Brenner told AFP on her farm in a small village surrounded by grain and sunflower fields some 100 […]

Austria, a neutral country, announced on Saturday its intention to join the European Sky Shield initiative, launched in 2022 by Germany against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. “We must and will take precautions to protect our country against the risk of drone or missile attacks,” Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said in a press […]

About 200 Syrian migrants joined a rally on 25 June in the centre of Vienna on occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. We commemorated the tens of thousands of Syrian brothers and sisters who have suffered by the brutal tyranny of Assad. Abdulhkeem Alshater from the group „Free Syrian Community […]

Authorities said pride participants were not in danger at any time. Austrian authorities said Sunday they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who allegedly sympathised with the extremist Islamic State group. The head of Austria’s domestic intelligence service, Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, told reporters that the suspects, aged 14, 17 […]

A spreadsheet error lead to the Social Democrats announcing the wrong winner in their weekend leadership election contest.Austria’s Social Democrats have a new leader, finally, after a weekend ballot and counting error lead to them first announcing the wrong winner.Andreas Babler, the mayor of the town of Traiskirchen, outside Vienna, was facing off against Hans […]

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 […]