The head of a cut-price petrol station company has revealed expansion plans. Free Energy Trading (FE) boss Markus Friesacher said today (Weds) his enterprise started constructing a new no-frills service station in Slovenia. It is the first time that FE gets active abroad. The company currently manages 30 low-cost petrol stations across Austria. Customers pay […]
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Social workers will visit badly integrated foreigners at home to help them learning German, People’s Party (ÖVP) Integration Secretary Sebastian Kurz announced yesterday (Tues). Kurz said his office planned to expand a successful Viennese pilot project concept based on programmes in Switzerland and Australia to several other Austrian towns and cities in the coming months. […]
OMV demands EU gas commitment
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The head of Austria’s leading oil and gas company has appealed to political leaders to take a stand for gas as a key future source of energy. Gerhard Roiss, who has headed OMV AG since 2011, told the Kurier newspaper that the European Union (EU) should make clear whether it supported the search for and […]
The number of job seekers is on the rise. Around 263,700 people had no work last month, the Labour Market Service (AMS) announced. This is an increase of 4.4 per cent compared to the same month of 2011. The organisation underlined that especially physically and mentally handicapped people, older workers and immigrants struggled to find […]
High-ranking representatives of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) have defended controversial slogans of the party’s Tyrolean department. The rightist party’s Innsbruck branch warned from “Moroccan thieves” in rhyme on a recently presented poster. The slogan was part of the FPÖ’s campaign for the upcoming Innsbruck city hall ballot. Residents of the provincial capital of Tyrol will […]
Rewe Austria claims market share leap
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Rewe Austria has managed to increase its market share, according to a report issued by the company. Rewe Austria boss Frank Hensel said yesterday (Thurs) that his firm – which manages leading supermarket Billa, discounter Penny and other chains – had a domestic market share of 35 per cent last year. “We managed to keep […]
Opposition pounces on pressurised ÖVP
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The opposition plans to organise a series of extraordinary parliamentary meetings to raise the pressure on the People’s Party (ÖVP). Members of parliament (MPs) representing the ÖVP in the anti-corruption commission dramatically reduced the number of witnesses to be questioned concerning the Federal Workers’ and Employees’ Association (ÖAAB) controversy. A magazine published by the organisation, […]
Long-term contract for Lindner
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FK Austria Vienna bosses decided to extend the contract of Heinz Lindner. Yesterday’s (Weds) agreement means that the 21-year-old keeper is set to stay with the Austrian Football Bundesliga club until 2015. The team of Ivica Vastic will clash with leaders Red Bull Salzburg (RBS) on Sunday. The Austrian Bundesliga table after 27 of 36 […]
Resetarits is at the ready again
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One of Austria’s most renowned spoken word artists has presented his latest programme while a Dutch bluesman tours the country. “Un Ruhe Stand”, which plays with the German term for retirement (Ruhestand), is the 24th stage programme of Lukas Resetarits. In it, the celebrated entertainer and actor tries to find out whether the complaints of […]
Achy lakey heart
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It is the romantic heart-shaped lake that is putting an end to heartbreak for singles in Austria after becoming a magnet for matchmaking clubs in the country. Remote Luna Lake in Vorarlberg used to be round until it was flooded as part of a hydro-electric power project, which turned it into a perfect heart. Lonelyhearts […]