With plenty of snow it’s now business as usual at Vienna’s local ski resort at Semmering Zauberberg – just an hour’s drive from the Austrian capital. This month there are a number of attractions starting on eighth February with the Ö3 PistenBully! The DJs from the ORF’s flagship radio program will be helping to turn […]
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High dining in Vienna will become accessible to people on tighter budgets in February when some of the city’s top restaurants reduce their prices for ten days. It will be the tenth year the Diningcity Restaurant Week has been hosted in Vienna, where dozens of top end eateries will offer menus for the fixed price […]
Cold snap causes higher jobless rate
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The number of unemployed people is on the rise in Austria. Statistik Austria announced yesterday (Thurs) that 310,000 residents of the country had no job in February. This is an increase of 6.1 per cent compared to the same month of 2011. Styria experienced the strongest increase among Austria’s nine provinces at 9.4 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 […]
Food prices soar beyond inflation rate
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Consumer rights watchdogs have called on political decision-makers to take action as food is getting more expensive.Labour Chamber (AK) research focusing on the 41 most common products of daily life shows that Austrians are currently forced to fork out four per cent more for the same goods at supermarkets than in January. Flour price rates […]
A Slovakian gang accused of dozens of cash machine thefts in their homeland and in the neighbouring Czech Republic was not active in Austria, police announced today (Fri).A spokesman for the Federal Crime Office (BK) in Vienna said investigations to this point suggest that the five men who were arrested earlier this week […]
GDP climbs as real wages dwindle
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More exports and higher activity of the countrys production sector have led to a 0.8 per cent increase of the Austrian gross domestic product (GDP) in the final quarter of last year, a think tank has announced.The Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) said today (Thurs) the GDP was 0.8 per cent higher between October and […]
Vienna jobless rate rises
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Viennas unemployment rate has risen significantly.Statistik Austria said today (Tues) 7.6 per cent more people were without a job in the city last month than in February 2010, while all of Austrias other eight political regions registered declines.The overall Austrian unemployment rate was 4.3 per cent last month, down slightly year on year and compared […]
New figures confirm THI AG recovery
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Upper Austrian wood company Teak Holz International AG (THI AG) is back in the black, it has emerged.The Linz-based firm, which suffered a loss of 11.8 million Euros in the 2008/2009 business year, said today (Thurs) its achieved earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) of 3.5 million Euros in the 2009/2010 business year which ended […]
Austrian exports rose in February
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Austrian exports rose in February by 5.5 per cent year on year to 7.82 million Euros, according to Statistik Austria.The agency added today (Fri) that imports had grown by 3.4 per cent year on year to 8.08 billion Euros in February. Both exports and imports had declined year on year in January.For the two months […]