ÖVP NÖ wants to slow wind farm madness

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Politics

The ÖVP wants to reduce wind farms in order not to spoil the image of the landscape. The government of Lower Austria decided to develop a new Planning Law and to keep the budget low. 460 wind farms will be put up in Lower Austria until the end of 2013. They deliver 14 percent of […]

Luxury Sausages in Vienna

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Culinary Guide

Sausage loving Austrians have gained a new treat in their culinary landscape after a gourmet sausage stand opened at Schwedenplatz. On the menu is the popular cheese sausage the Kasekrainer sold together with caviar and champagne. Cathedral chaplain Toni Faber blessed the new sausage stand and the man cooking up the menu was none other […]

Stolen Klimt sells for 30 million Euros

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General News

 A Gustav Klimt landscape has sold for 30 million Euros in New York. The painting, entitled “Litzlberg am Attersee” was stolen by the Nazis in Austria in 1938 and recently returned to the owner this year. The painting, which depicts rolling hills beside a lake, was in The Salzburg Museum of Modern Art until last […]