A vast majority of Austrians said they have a worse opinion of Google after it emerged that the company garnered information about wireless LAN internet access when preparing its Street View service.Public opinion agency Oekonsult said today (Mon) 90.3 per cent of the around 1,100 people they interviewed told them their opinion of the American […]
Quentin Tarantino will visit Austria to look for a location for an upcoming film about Dracula, it has been reported.Austrian press claimed over the weekend that the “Pulp Fiction” director will stay for four nights in Vienna to visit castles in the nearby countryside.Oscar winner Nicolas Cage spent some weeks in Austria to shoot supernatural […]
Vice champions Austria Vienna said today (Fri) they had agreed with striker Marko Stankovic on a two-year deal.The 24-year-old Austrian joins the side coached by Karl Daxbacher from Italian Serie B club US Triestina.Stankovic, who performed for the Austrian national team once in a friendly against Turkey in November 2008 (2-4), played for Bundesliga club […]
Plurality says no to holidays this year
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Forty-one per cent of Austrians will not go on holiday this year, according to the results of a new poll by Linz public-opinion research firm IMAS released today (Tues).Six per cent said they had already been on holiday, seven per cent said they had already taken part of their planned holiday, and 46 per cent […]
Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn said today (Mon) he shared the concern of Eisenstadt Bishop Paul Ibys concern about mandatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests.”The concern that Bishop Iby expressed is shared by all of us (Austrian bishops), and I am happy to be in a Church in which there is freedom of speech and […]
Every third Austrian who will go on holiday this year will do so in Austria, according to the results of a new poll by the Institute for Tourism and Leisure-Time Research released today (Mon).It said 10-to-15 per cent of the 50 per cent of Austrians who were planning to go on holiday had changed their […]
A number of Vienna cultural locales were flooded or otherwise disrupted by yesterdays (Thurs) heavy rain.Water was ankle-deep in five of the seven cinemas at Lugner City, and one of them had to be evacuated during a film showing and the buildings lowest floor had to be closed. Theatre manager Alexander Fischbacher said it was […]
The outlook for flights in Austrian airspace is good for the next few days, a spokesman for Austria air-traffic control agency Austro Control said today (Weds).German news agency dpa quoted the German Flight Safety Agency (DFS) today as saying that “Europe remains free of ash” despite the continued eruption of a volcano on Eyjafjalla glacier […]
Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies in trouble and expensive hazelnuts are hurting Viennese sweets producer Manner financially.The firm reported today (Weds) that its turnover declined by 6.7 per cent year on year to 35.8 million Euros in the first quarter of 2010. Turnover declined substantially in Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia and also fell in […]
Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger has called for an end to “EU enlargement fatigue”.”The economic crisis should not be an excuse for enlargement fatigue,” he said today (Weds), adding that closer relations between states in the western Balkans and the European Union were in “Austrias own interest.”He called on the European Union […]