The sale of broke industrial company A-Tec Industries AG (A-Tec) could be overruled by judges after a defeated bidder revealed plans to appeal the deal in court. Czech-Slovakian investment company Penta announced today (Tues) an affiliate has asked the Commercial Court of Vienna for an injunction of the agreement between A-Tec bosses, representatives of creditors […]
Rowan Atkinson has criticised how the main character of his new film was labelled by marketing people. The English actor and comedian told Austrian movie magazine Skip his famous TV character, Mr. Bean, and Johnny English had little in common in his opinion. He revealed: “I was shocked when the first ‘Johnny English’ film came […]
Serbia have won the EuroVolley 2011. The volleyball national team are European champions for a second time after their triumph in 2001. Serbia beat Italy 3-1 in yesterday’s (Sun) final of the tournament in Vienna’s Stadthalle. Igor Kolakovic the manager of the Serbian national team, said: “No one believed in us, not even our own […]
People’s Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Maria Fekter has apologised after comparing today’s criticism of bankers with the Nazis’ persecution of Europe’s Jewish community. The federal minister warned on Friday current developments could escalate to “what resulted in wars twice.” Fekter said after a meeting of the European Union’s (EU) ministers of finance in Wroclaw, Poland: […]
Former Social Democratic (SPÖ) Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer has dismissed a suggestion by his successor on how Europe’s politicians could get the continent’s volatile economic situation under control. SPÖ head and Chancellor Werner Faymann said the federal government and state leaders of the 27 European Union (EU) member countries should meet more often to debate how […]
Fewer Austrians than ever before are interested in politics, according to a poll. Research group Imas said yesterday (Weds) only five per cent of citizens explained they were “strongly interested” in developments in interior politics. Around three in four admitted being indifferent or uninterested. Imas explained the percentage figure of those very interested has never […]
Jürgen Melzer has revealed plans to set up a tennis training centre for youngsters after retiring. Austria’s number one in world tennis told magazine News: “I think those who intensively think about what to do after playing on a professional level kind of have given up the sport already. Nevertheless, I can say that I […]
A man from Lower Austria has been sentenced to prison for glorifying the Third Reich. The 54-year-old was found guilty of breaching Austria’s anti-Nazi propaganda law. He was ordered to spend six months behind bars, with another 12 months on suspension. The verdict – issued by a court in Wiener Neustadt yesterday (Tues) – is […]
Words and Pictures by Glen Sweeney We had been promising ourselves a trip to Bratislava on the Twin City Liner since its inauguration but somehow never got around to it. So, this summer with gritted determination we set out to commit to a date and even went so far as to book our tickets and […]
Jürgen Trittin has warned of more dramatic effects than after the collapse of Lehman Brothers if Europe allows Greece to go bust. The influential German Green Party official told Austrian newspaper Die Presse today (Tues) he was certain an insolvency of the struggling Southern European country would have a more serious impact on developments on […]