Following lack of progress made by talks between representatives of the Church, the charity Caritas and refugee activists at the Votiv Kirche in Vienna, protesters are set to stay camped outside the building. On Tuesday evening Caritas spokesman Klaus Schwertner said: “The church is a place of refuge.” Previously, however, pastor of the Votive Church […]
Eduard Paulus, director of the public asset management of the federal state Salzburg, who should have supervised the rogue portfolio manager that gambled away close to 340 million Euro in the recent financial scandal, is still not facing sanctions. Paulus is a representatives of the Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP), and so far only a member […]
Man goes on supermarket axe rampage
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A supermarket worker and three supermarket customers were attacked by a man on the rampage with an axe in a supermarket in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The 49-year-old stormed into the supermarket where his 42-year-old ex-wife worked in the Floridsdorf district of Vienna on Monday afternoon armed with an axe and attacked his wife […]
A man accused of raping a 23-year-old woman on an underground line during rush hour in the Austrian capital has been arrested in Graz, Styria. The 25-year-old man from Vorarlberg was recognised at a tram stop by an eyewitness and then arrested and detained in Graz. The young woman boarded the train at the underground […]
Vienna’s indoor swimming pool the Amalienbad is open again after it was closed for renovations over the summer. The main improvement was an update and renovation of the technology involved in purifying and filtering the water at the swimming pool, but also heating and a conditioning systems were modernised. There is also now are barrier […]
Lower Austrian election date fixed
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Lower Austria’s regional Governor Erwin Pröll has announced plans for the elections in the region to take place next year on 3 March. Announcing the decision he said that the work of the local government would continue right up until the last minute and that the election campaign that followed, which would probably start on […]
More speculation in regional councils
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The region of Velden in Carinthia is the latest named as having been involved in risky financial investments after losing close to 500,000 Euros of taxpayers money. If correct it will mean Velden is the latest in a number of local government bodies that has tried to profit from speculative investments. Now that the tide […]
Salzburg’s deputy governor and the man in charge of the province’s finances has announced he plans to resign next month after an alleged rogue trader gambled away billions on risky financial market ventures. Law graduate Monika R, 45, was hired in 2001 to speculate with taxpayers money and made massive losses in 2006 after she […]
The lawyer for the alleged rogue trader at the centre of a scandal that might cost the federal province of Salzburg up to 3 billion has accused the regional governor of not telling the truth when she said she did not know anything about the scandal until 3 of December. Lawyer Herbert Hübel said that […]
Vintners in Austria’s wine making heartland of Burgenland have started harvesting the grapes to make ice wine (Eiswein). The sweet dessert wine from the region which is now sold around the world is only made from grapes harvested after temperatures fall below freezing and the grapes are completely frozen through. The sugars and other dissolved […]