Austrians are buying less heating oil amid soaring prices, new figures show.The Institute for Economic Oil-Heating (IWO) announced today (Fri) private and business clients bought 1.7 billion litres of the product last year. The organisation explained this was a 0.6 per cent decline compared to figures from 2009.The IWO said it has been registering a […]
Nearly one of two Austrians fear being unable to finance appropriate old-age care for themselves.GfK Austria said today (Fri) 49 per cent of the polled citizens of all age groups said they are afraid of possessing too low assets to pay for good care in case they need it when they get older. The agency […]
Austrian Airlines (AUA) has failed to find the runway to recovery, latest business performance figures show.The airline sustained a loss of 63.5 million Euros in the first three months of this year, only down slightly compared to the same period of last year (64.7 million Euros).The carrier, which has its headquarters in Vienna, had an […]
A party founded by late right-winger Jörg Haider has caused a diplomatic rift by announcing that the Turkish president “is not welcome” in Austria.The Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) was established by Haider in 2005. The party said yesterday (Mon) when Abdullah Gül started a three-day visit to Austria that the […]
The number of people failing to find a job for a long time is in decline, new figures show.Social Democratic (SPÖ) Labour Minister Rudolf Hundstorfer said today (Mon) that 5,037 of all of last months jobseekers had been out of work for more than a year. The minister pointed out that this number was 30.2 […]
Greens chairwoman Eva Glawischnig has hit out at Peoples Party (ÖVP) Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich.The Green Party head said Austria was likely to fail reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and made the minister responsible for the development. Glawischnig also pointed out that the share of energy from renewable sources declined by two per cent […]
Writers are outraged by news that Viennas libraries plan to get rid of hundreds of thousands of books.The IG Autoren, a group of authors, said in an open letter published today (Fri) it feared that the libraries will ban less popular works “which do not match the mainstream of the bestseller literature business.”A spokesman for […]
The head of a railway company which plans to challenge Federal Railways (ÖBB) from December has said that his firms trains will have facilities for smokers.Stefan Wehinger, chief of Westbahn which will operate 13 times a day between Vienna and Salzburg, said today (Fri) that wagons will be equipped with “smoker cabins.”Speaking to the Kurier […]
Some of Austrias most prestigious hotels may get a new owner in the near future, according to reports by business media.Weekly magazine Format claims today (Fri) Hotel Sacher boss Elisabeth Gürtler has signalised interest in taking over Hotel Bristol. Both the Sacher and the Bristol are five-star establishments situated in the city centre of Vienna. […]
Tchibo-Eduscho, a leading coffee shop company, is making half of its profit with non-food goods, it has been revealed.The German-Austrian company which runs 140 shops in Austria said today (Fri) half of its overall turnover is generated by sales of jewellery, household products and clothes it is offering for limited time spans throughout […]