Schweizerhaus, a huge beer garden, popular with locals and tourists alike has opened for the summer season this week just in time for the warmer weather this weekend in Vienna. The beer garden opens every year on 15 March at 10am and many locals rush to its opening to sink their first beer of the […]
Despite the record cold winter Austrian climatologists say the country’s glaciers melted last year faster than ever before. They highlighted the case of the glacier on the Dachstein that in 2011 shrunk with the loss of 6 million cubic metres of water – enough to fill 40 million baths. The melting glaciers are also a […]
Kapfenberg have kept their chances to avoid being relegated alive. The Styrian club beat Wiener Neustadt in a match which had to be cancelled a few weeks ago when Austria was blanketed by snow. Defender Thomas Schönberger scored the only goal of the game in the 73rd minute. The Austrian Bundesliga will continue with four […]
Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA) has made a profit for the first time in four years. The struggling finance institute – which had to be nationalized in December 2009 – said it managed to make profits of 59 million Euros last year. The Klagenfurt-based bank headed by Gottwald Kranebitter sustained a loss of more than […]
No Austrian university has made the new Times Higher Education Ranking. Vienna University, Austria’s biggest higher education institution, was the only Austrian university listed last year. It was part of the group of universities placed between 91st and 100th in the Times Higher Education Ranking of 2011. The study includes detailed information on the world’s […]
An end to the feud between the Austrian Church’s leaders and a “disobedient” group of preachers seems out of reach. Graz Diocese Bishop Egon Kapellari warned from a splitting of the country’s Catholic Church if the Preachers’ Initiative failed to stop its activities. Kapellari appealed on the association of parish priests – which was established […]
Viennese Social Democratic (SPÖ) Health Councillor Sonja Wehsely has a fifty-fifty divide of the General Hospital’s (AKH) expenditures. Around two thirds of the costs of Europe’s largest clinic are currently covered by the city hall. The Republic of Austria comes up for the remaining part of the hospital’s budget. Wehsely said the state must compensate […]
Vienna is no longer one of the 10 richest regions in Europe. Eurostat, the European Commission’s (EC) statistics and research organisation, announced yesterday (Tues) that Vienna made 11th place in its latest check covering the whole European Union (EU). Eurostat said the Viennese area’s economic power was 161 per cent if 100 per cent was […]
The Viennese government plans to create a charter for better coexistence in the city. Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Michael Häupl said yesterday (Tues) that the Viennese Charter should be formulated by November. He appealed to residents of Vienna to participate in discussing which aspects should be considered by the document. Greens Vice Mayor Maria Vassilakou […]
Gebrüder Weiss CEO Wolfgang Niessner has revealed plans to invest in Austria and the Czech Republic. Niessner said today (Weds) that his company – one of Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) leading transport and logistics enterprises – considered expanding some of its facilities. He said that the provinces of Salzburg, Lower Austria and Upper Austria […]