The two Austrian teenage girls who became ‘poster girls’ for the jihad in Syria are now desperate to come home after getting completely disillusioned with their new lifestyles. Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, who grew up in the Austrian capital Vienna and enjoyed the freedom to wear whatever they wanted, and […]
By Matthias Loinig Saturday evening saw the annual SPÖ ‘Kanzlerfest’ take place in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The gala took place at the Altmannsdorfer Garten Hotel in the Vienna district of Meidling. Despite it being the holiday season and record breaking temperatures of up to 40 degrees, 2,000 guests attended the gala. Werner Faymann […]
By Rob Hyde A pair who biked to Gibralta as a pre-wedding test of their relationship, have returned to Austria. The couple had cycled from Hollenthon in Lower Austria to the rock of Gibralta, then flew back to Vienna, before biking the rest of the way home. They had journeyed all the way to the […]
By Rob Hyde Although Grasser claims he received 500,000 Euros in cash from his mother-in-law in Switzerland, he had flown with AUA to the Far East at the time, says FORMAT magazine. Its article says former finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser was in Nepal and Peking in the same period he says he was in Switzerland. […]
New Peoples Party (ÖVP) Justice Minister Beatrix Karl has said she wants to win back peoples faith in the countrys juridical system.A majority of 55 per cent of Austrians told research group Karmasin in January that they put less trust in the juridical system now than one year ago.Karl was sworn in yesterday (Thurs). The […]
Austrias second-strongest political party may get a new leader, according to press.Several newspapers are speculating that the board of the Peoples Party (ÖVP) has started to negotiate who could follow Josef Pröll as chairman, finance minister and vice chancellor.The former environment minister was airlifted to a clinic in Innsbruck after experiencing breathing difficulties during a […]
A couple suspected of having stolen antiques worth millions of Euros from a Habsburg family-owned estate have been arrested in Morocco.Claudia and Engelbert M. applied for support at the Austrian embassy in the Moroccan capital Rabat after having run out of money at the weekend. The married couple were arrested when officials realised they are […]
A Peoples Party (ÖVP) mayor faces a trial over an alleged sex attack, it has emerged.Wilfried Berchtold, ÖVP Mayor of the city of Feldkirch, went on sick leave from his political position after a womans accusations were uncovered by local media earlier this year. Now the state prosecution of Feldkirch confirmed that Berchtold will be […]
Hundreds of Czech doctors may seek work in neighbouring Austria over a heated row about low salaries.The Czech doctors union announced in an open letter to the government published today (Tues) that 4,000 doctors one of out four of physicians working at hospitals in the country would quit if politician decision-makers failed to […]
Construction company Porr has started to lay off staff, new figures have shown.The Vienna-based firm, which is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchanges (WBAG) standard market auction, said today (Thurs) it had an average 11,560 employees in the first nine months of this year, down from 11,736 it had in the same period of 2009.This […]