Vienna travel agency Siesta IT-Reisen and Viennas so-called “jumbo group” of travel agencies reported today (Mon) that no Austrians had been hurt in the Chilean earthquake.An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale occurred off shore of Concepcion, Chile, early Saturday morning.Two Austrians were stranded on Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean because of the […]
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Most Austrians think euthanasia in the final stage of a lethal disease should go unpunished, a poll has shown.Vienna-based research agency Karmasin said it had interviewed 500 Austrians for its weekly poll for news magazine profil.The pollsters announced 46 per cent of questioned people had said doctors who carry out euthanasia on patients suffering from […]
A fourth of Austrians need better connection to public transport, the Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) reported today (Weds).Club expert Martin Blum said supply was not keeping up with demand and it was especially important to give the rail priority over roads.He added that 60 per cent of Austrians regularly used public transport, which accounted for […]
Sixty-two per cent of Austrians support euthanasia by doctors for patients who request it, the results of a new poll commissioned by Graz Medical University released today (Weds) show.The percentage is 13 percentage points higher than in 2000, it said.In the poll, 66 per cent of men and 58.5 per cent of women said they […]
A Bulgarian jailed for life for the murder of two Austrians branded a judge “Nazi swine” as he lost an appeal against his sentence yesterday (Mon).Vienna Appelate Court (OLG) yesterday (Mon) rejected killer Tsvetan Rangelovs appeal of his life sentence for the murder of two Austrians last year.Ingrid Jelinek, the chairwoman of the courts three […]
Savings accounts were the investment vehicle of choice for Austrians last year, new research has shown.According to results of a new poll by GfK Austria released today (Weds) 52 per cent of Austrians put available money into them in 2009.That percentage compares to the 15 per cent of Austrians who chose to put money into […]
More than eighty per cent of Austrians want tougher dangerous dog laws, a new survey has shown.Pollsters Oekonsult interviewed 1,117 people for its research as a referendum over whether a so-called dog keepers licence should be introduced starts tomorrow (Thurs) in Vienna.The Oekonsult poll shows 83 per cent of the questioned backed “restrictive law changes […]