Green parliamentary whip Werner Kogler called today (Weds) for creditors to make a contribution to the financing of the EU stability package for Euro-zone countries.He said they needed to do that before they dumped bonds issued by countries high in debt on the European Central Bank (ECB), thereby transferring their financial risk to EU tax-payers.Banks […]
Burgenland election campaign heats up
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The Burgenland election campaign heated up today (Weds), with the Peoples Party slamming an advertisement by Social Democratic (SPÖ) Governor Hans Niessl.The advertisement announces his decision to dissolve the provincial legislature in advance of the 30 May provincial election.ÖVP provincial manager Christian Sagartz demanded that the SPÖ make the sources of the funding of its […]
Bernhard Felderer, who heads the Vienna economic think tank the Institute of Higher Studies (IHS), has said that last nights Euro-zone stability package was “a reasonable solution” that had already begun to stem speculation against the Euro.Speaking today (Mon) Felderer said: “They (finance ministers) did not have many other options,” adding that “it is not […]
Paraglider injured in meadow crash
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A 36-year-old man was injured yesterday (Sun) afternoon when his paraglide crashed into a meadow shortly after he had taken off in Kürnberg in Lower Austrias Amstetten district.Police said the man, from Upper Austrias Steyr district, had failed to make use of the wind after a tension line in the left wing of his paraglider […]
Austrian oil and gas producer OMVs chief Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer has said he expects his firm to have much better results this year than in 2009.Ruttenstorfer said today that predictions were difficult at present, especially given the recent sharp decline in the price of OMVs stock, but said the plunging Euro would be “positive” for the […]
The deadly bacteria listeria detected in a batch of smoked trout yesterday was “an isolated case”, the firm Eisvogels chief Hubert Bernegger claimed today (Fri).He said the firm, based in Molln in Upper Austrias Kirchdorf district, was maintaining all appropriate hygienic standards in its production and had spent more than 60,000 Euros annually in micro-biological […]
Three Austrians aged 34, 43 and 45 have been arrested at a traffic check point on the A3 motorway near Passau, Bavaria, for possession of four kilos of hashishGerman police said they had found the drug and 35,000 Euros in cash in a plastic sack underneath the trios luggage in the boot during a search […]
iPad to come to Austria in July
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The US firm Apple has announced its new iPads will be available in Austria in July.The company said the product would also become available in Belgium, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore in July.The iPad, which has been on sale only in the USA, will go on sale in Germany, […]
The Social Democrats (SPÖ) fear that a future British Conservative Party government would have “negative implications,” according to SPÖ federal manager Laura Rudas.Speaking today (Fri) Rudas said that such a government would constitute a set-back for efforts to make Europe “more social and for more regulation and control of financial markets. It would be more […]
An exhibition on the work of artist Susi Weigel will open at the Womens Museum in Hittisau, Vorarlberg on 13 May, it was announced today (Fri).Weigel, who died in 1990, produced a vast amount of childrens literature, including the classic “Das kleine Ich bin Ich” (The small me is me) in 1972. The exhibition will […]