Politics, page 4

• Salzburg still refuses to allow private ski teachers
  A heated debate has broken out in Salzburg over local rules that make it almost impossible for private ski teachers to operate on ski slopes in the region.
• Vienna extends deadline to get parking tickets
  Vienna city council officials have extended the deadline for people to organise permits in the new areas of the city that are now defined as short parking regions.
• Green Archduke wants titles returned in Austria
  A Green politician sitting on the local council in Wolfsberg wants to see the return of aristocratic titles which were banned in Austria after the first world war.
• Poles accused of wage dumping forcing Austrians out of work
  The Polish chamber of commerce has been accused of encouraging wage dumping by actively campaigning for the use of Polish labourers among German speaking firms.

• FPK again rejects January election date
  Carinthian governor Gerhard Dörfler (FPK) has ruled out a suggestion of new elections for the province on 20 January next year. The prospect of elections on this date had been favoured by the People's party (ÖVP), the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Greens.
• Hospital closure the only prescription for an improved health service
  The savage cuts being made to Europe's 1bn € health budgets are unnecessary, the result of a failure of organisation, of greedy doctors and vote-hungry local politicians, the founder-president of the European Health Forum Gastein, Austrian-born Prof Dr Günther Leiner, said today.
• Discursive politics - language with a spin
  A project sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has made a detailed investigation on what viewers understand and how they evaluate the statements of politicians during televised debates.
• CSSR refugees pay village refuge 1 million
  A small Austrian village in northern Burgenland have benefited after being left more than €1 million by two brothers who managed to stay there briefly after fleeing from the former CSSR before going on to Vienna and then making their home in Sweden.

• Hitler home town mayor fed up with saying sorry for the war
  Hitler home town rejects idea of further memorials to the tragedy of World war II and plans to turn Hitler's birth house into flats.
• Fischer slams parties over corruption probe poker
  Austria's President has criticised the country's waring politicians over a parliamentary investigation into high-level corruption that he said was sending the wrong signal to the population.
• Minister wants rethink over GM foods after rat death study
  Austria's minister for agriculture and the environment has called on the European Commission to review its approval process for genetically modified (GM) food after a controversial French study linked a kind of GM corn to higher health risks in rats.
• August Penz resigns from Freedom Party
  A former candidate of the Tyrolean Freedom Party (FPÖ) August Penz has resigned from the party.

• News agency Reuters profiles Maria Fekter
  Austria's straight talking Finance Minister Maria Fekter who once described herself as "the only man in the Austrian government" has been profiled by news agency Reuters in a new report that says she is direct and unafraid to speak her mind - and "never boring".
• Stronach could tip political balance
  Millionaire businessman Frank Stronach, the founder of automotive industry giant Magna International is to stand as the top candidate for his newly founded party and according to political scientist Peter Filzmaier he could tip the political balance.
• Green MP filmed speeding by FPÖ
  Austrian Green Party Boss Eva Glawischnig has allegedly been caught on camera driving fast on the A2 motorway near Baden, Lower Austria, where the speed limit is 130 KMH.
• ÖVP wants mobile phone ban for cyclists
  Austria's people party the ÖVP is demanding a ban on cyclists using their mobile phones whilst they ride.

• FPÖ website hacked by Anonymous.
  The hacker group Anonymous managed to hack the Freedom Party website and switched the usual content of the site with a protest against the EU Monitoring Project INDECT.
• Builders demand pension changes
  Builders in Vorarlberg are demanding changes to their pensions so they are compensated in later life for their hard labour.
• Pension system unfair says AK boss
  Pension payments should be linked to the amount of time worked and not to age according to the Chamber of Labour (AK) in Salzburg.
• Minister rules out sex abuse teacher database
  School's inspector Herbert Gimpel (SPÖ) has suggested a central database listing teachers convicted of sex offences.

• Too much saving created the Nazis says bank boss
  Austria's central bank head has warned against too much austerity that he said led to the rise of Nazism in the 1930s.
• AMS sponsors jobs for older workers
  The Austrian unemployment service the AMS is tackling unemployment among older workers with a new initiative entitled "Jobs for the Older".
• Row over care for the elderly staff
  A heated row has broken out with criticism of the Consumer and Social Affairs Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer from within his own party.
• EC warns debt-ridden Austria
  Austria has been criticised for its high public debts.

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