Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger has appealed to his Sudanese counterpart Ali Ahmed Karti to increase measures avoiding a civil war breaking out in Darfur.Spindelegger said Austria currently a member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) had “great interest” in the wellbeing of the thousands of refugees living in the […]
Viennese commuters are outraged after the citys public transport agency Wiener Linien said 20 years will pass before all its fleet vehicles have air conditioning.Answer Lang, a spokesman for the company, said today (Weds): “Every new tram or underground is equipped with air conditioning.”Lang claimed it would be an economic mistake to set up old […]
Austria named top Q1 investor in Croatia
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Austrian firms have invested more in Croatia than companies from other countries in the first quarter of this year, it has been announced.The Croatian National Bank (HNB) said today (Tues) Austrian businesses spent 195.8 million Euros during the first three months of this year. Germany is in second with business activities worth 90.4 million Euros, […]
Coaches tip ‘Bulls’ to defend title
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Four in ten Austrian Bundesliga club bosses said champions Red Bull Salzburg were favourites to win the 2010/2011 title.Sturm Graz coach Franco Foda, Magna Wiener Neustadts Peter Schöttel, Kapfenberg manager Werner Gregoritsch as well as “Bulls” boss Huub Stevens said today (Tues) they tipped last seasons champs to win the trophy once more.Red Bull won […]
Austrian towns registered higher temperatures than Turkish holiday hotspots around midday today (Mon), according to Austrian meteorologists.Experts at Viennas Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) said weather stations in Neusiedl am See at Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, and St. Andrä im Lavanttal in Carinthia registered 35 degrees centigrade.They said this was more than temperatures reached in […]
Mobile communications provider 3 said today (Tues) 86,000 customers watched World Cup live coverage on their mobiles.The company said last Sundays final between Spain and the Netherlands (1-0) received the biggest hits, with all of the matches of the German national team recording good market shares as well.The firm added that customers watched on average […]
Bosnia-Herzegovina is the number one exporter of barbeque coal to Austria, it has been reported.Statistik Austria said today (Tues) Austrian firms ordered most BBQ coals from the country, followed by Serbia and Germany last year.The state agency added coal imported from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia was worth an overall two million Euro.Other countries only have a […]
An ice cream investigation has revealed almost one in four served to the public suffer serious hygiene flaws.The Upper Austrian Labour Chamber (AKOÖ) said today (Tues) that hygiene specialists who examined ice cream on sale at parlours in the provincial capital Linz found only eight of the 19 probes they took to be of passable […]
New German President Christian Wulff will come to Vienna this Wednesday, the office of Austrian President Heinz Fischer has announced. A spokeswoman for Fischer said today (Mon) that the former Christian Democratic (CDU) Minister President of Lower Saxony will stay in Vienna for a few hours. She announced Fischer and Wulff will meet for talks […]
The number of Austrians backing a total smoking ban in pubs and restaurants has soared after a new ruling went into force earlier this month.Opposition party chiefs have criticised the government coalition of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) for its ruling which forced venues smaller than 50 square-metres to decide between becoming […]