The first of 50,000 punters descend on Nickelsdorf (Burgenland) for the Nova Rock music festival today (Thursday). The biggest music festival in Austria, Nova Rock, begins this Friday. Police spokesman Bernhard Griensteidl said: “The parking lots will open at 10 am and the camping lot will open at 12 pm. We are prepared.” But he […]
ASFINAG has auctioned off 200 vehicles and pieces of equipment in Graz-Raaba (Styria) yesterday (Wednesday) to finance a new car pool. The 200 pieces that went to auction – ranging from small cars to snow ploughs and lawnmowers – were used by ASFINAG, who is responsible for planning, building, maintaining and operating motorways in many […]
Air-traffic controllers across Europe staged a day of protest against the EU plan to unify the European airspace yesterday (Wednesday). There were limited disruptions to Austrian air traffic – the only flights affected were those to and from France. Officials at Vienna-Schwechat’s international airport said that ten links to Paris, Nice and Lyon (France) were […]
Over 100 Swarovski staff who lost their jobs last week have been given a “new chance”, says the company’s director. The 110 workers who were laid off have been told they can take advantage of a new social plan offering training and help with finding new jobs. The ‘Work Foundation’ which will allow each employee […]
Three baby snow-leopards born in Salzburg’s Hellbrunn zoo six weeks ago got their first brief taste of the outdoors this week. The two female cubs and their brother frolicked around in their enclosure for half-an-hour before mum Mira decided they’d had enough and took them back inside. Zookeeper Andreas Gfrerer said: “This is the first […]
Top footy clubs will descend on Styria again this year for their pre-season training session. Up to 22 teams from 13 countries including English premier clubs West Bromwich and Fulham, Danish champs FC Copenhagen and Germany’s Bundesliga clubs Hertha BSC will base themselves in the Austrian province for the duration of the 18th Football Camp. […]
A spa hotel is looking to take on a court jester to make guests feel like kings. The Rogner Bad Blumau spa in Styria says it wants someone creative, musical and fun dressed up “in the right gear with a flute or a lute”. Director Melanie Franke said: “At the royal courts, jesters were a […]
The Styrian mechanical engineering firm Andritz has secured a 50 million Euro deal in China. The stock-listed company is to deliver ovens and equipment for the “Tangshan Iron and Steel Group”. The new tempering lines are for the production of highly resistant steel goods to be used in the automobile industry. The Styrian firm will […]
The University of Vienna finished the last academic year with an unexpected deficit of 15 million Euros. Rector Heinz Engl said it had budgeted for a loss of 8 million but that the Constitutional Court’s decision to suspend student fees had blown the budget to pieces. The university had a positive balance in 2010 and […]
The heavy rainfalls of the last week have led to a critical avalanche situation in the high-alpine regions of Tirol where there is already an onset of winter, experts have warned. Experts from the Avalanche Warning Service have explained that the risk is due to the fact that a fresh layer of snow and an […]