A special Austrian police unit will assist their Polish counterparts in getting ready for a major sports event.Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Interior Minister Maria Fekter announced today (Fri) that a team of Cobra unit officers will meet with special police forces in Poland later this year to discuss security measures for next years European Football […]
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Car dealers in Austria seem to look back on their best business year in history but record figures presented today (Tues) are deceiving, experts have warned.Statistik Austria announced that, with 328,563, more cars than ever were registered in 2010. The state agency said this figure meant a 2.9 per cent year on year increase […]
The number of bankruptcies declined by nearly six per cent year on year in 2010, it has been announced.Creditreform, an Austrian association for the protection of creditors, said today (Mon) that officials handled 6,657 cases of broke companies last year. It said this was a 5.9 per cent decrease compared to 2009 figures. Creditreform added […]
Paraglider dies after hitting rocks
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A 31-year-old paraglider died instantly after crashing against a rock face yesterday (Thurs).The man from Linz, Upper Austria, was paragliding in a mountainous area in the Styrian district of Liezen. He was already dead when a helicopter rescue team discovered him shortly after the incident around 3pm.Only last week, a 35-year-old Tyrolean paraglider was killed […]
More than 10 per cent of young Austrians are not in employment, education or training, it has emerged.The European Commissions (EC) statistic body Eurostat announced yesterday (Weds) that 10.1 per cent of Austrians aged between 20 and 24 were out of work, education and traineeships in 2008. The authority, which did not provide more recent […]
Austrian oil and gas giant OMV has taken over a competitors exploration activities in Tunisia.The Vienna-based company announced today (Thurs) it has transferred 610 million Euros to American firm Pioneer Natural Resources to take over its operations in the north African country. OMV said the executive board of its Tunisian subsidiary company signed contracts earlier […]
Carol singers in Vienna were accompanied by Viennese Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn as they visited the citys biggest mosque yesterday (Weds).The children, who collect money for impoverished countries in the traditional singing procession between New Years Day and Epiphany (6 January), and the highest representative of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria, were shown round […]
Fugitive caught 18 years on
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A Turk who escaped from an Austrian jail more than 15 years ago has been arrested after he tried to settle down in Vienna.The man managed to break out of a prison in Hirtenberg, Lower Austria, in 1993 when being ordered to mow the lawn in a low security zone.The 47-year-old was caught in Vienna […]
Austrian brewers employ nearly 4,000
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Almost 4,000 people work for Austrian breweries, new figures show.A study published by magazine News reveals the countrys 69 brewing companies have around 3,900 employees. Only Germanys 1,319 breweries (29,604) and the 124 Belgian beer firms (5,190) have more staff in the European Union (EU). There are significantly more breweries in Denmark (120) than in […]
ÖBB head promises ticket price freeze
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Federal Railways (ÖBB) boss Christian Kern has ruled out tickets becoming more expensive.”Ticket prices should not rise this year. We can save money in passenger services and our infrastructure elsewhere,” he told weekly magazine profil.Asked why he recently called for a 400-million-Euro injection by the state for the debt-ridden company, Kern explained he wanted to […]