The extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner stated that the Ministry of Finance spared him additional taxation by political intervention. The former Financial Secretary Reinhold Lopatka (ÖVP) denies these claims. It was known that Baumgartner moved to Switzerland due to tax reasons. Mr Baumgartner told the newspaper “Kronen Zeitung” that the Ministry of Finance denied his tax-saving […]
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Shopping centre operator Richard Lugner has been fighting for Sunday opening hours in his shopping centre “Lugner City” in Vienna. He is now supported by the BZÖ and will lobby in Brussels for the extension of opening hours. „I will go tho Brussels in June, together with representatives of the Berlin chamber of commerce and […]
Integration week starts today
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The third “Vienna integration week” starts today. More than 270 events within ten days will show where and how integration works in Vienna. An entrepreneur with Bosnian roots is the organiser of the event. “There are many places in Vienna, where multilingualism, diversity, cohabitation and integration are self-evident. This is where our event takes place […]
Klaus Lins from Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (Western Austria), indirectly passed on documents of tax fugitives to German authorities in 1997. He stated in an interview with the magazine “trend” that the public prosecutor’s office of Innsbruck possibly sheltered these documents. The public prosecutor’s office of Innsbruck has possibly been sheltering documents about Austrian tax fugitives for […]
Pröll defends nationalisation of Hypo
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Former vice chancellor and finance minister Josef Pröll (ÖVP) defended the emergency nationalisation of the Carinthian bank Hypo Alpe Adria (2009) in the hearing of the Bavarian Landesbank (BayernLB) against the fund Hypo Alpe Adria Mitarbeiter Privatstiftung (MAPS) at the commercial court of Vienna. BayernLB made sales contracts in regards to Hypo shares with MAPS […]
Robin Hood shoe maker back in court
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The Constitutional Court (VfGH) has rebuffed Heinrich Staudinger, the shoe and furniture producer from Waldviertel (Lower Austria). The businessman believes that businesses should be independent from bank loans and freed from debt. The examination of his complaint was rejected. Since 1999, Mr Staudinger has been able to collect 3 million euros from family, friends and […]
A British teacher has died on the first day of a week-long school ski trip after falling off a four meter high stone wall after a trip to a pub and landing on his head. Austrian police said Jonathan Taylor, 44, an IT teacher at the Christ the King School in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, had been […]
The neo-Nazi scene is decreasing in Styria (Southeastern Austria). The numbers of complaints fell. Instead, the police are more worried about Salafi extremist teenagers with migration background who stir up hatred against Jewish people. More than seven decades after the annexation of Austria to Nazi-Germany, right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism still exist in our country. Complaints […]
Masters Of Dirt: FMX driver Eigo Sato died
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The Japanese Freestyle Motocross driver Eigo Sato died a few days after his performance at the event “Masters of Dirt” in the Vienna City Hall. Although the details of his death have not been revealed, unofficial reports state that Mr Sato had an accident when attempting a backflip on his motorbike. He is said to […]
The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) of Lower Austria officially started the election campaign with a major event in Multiversum in Schwechat yesterday evening (Thurs). Governor or Lower Austria and top candidate Erwin Pröll demands clarity in the country. His new favourite opponent is Frank Stronach. According to ÖVP, 4,000 fans came to the event. 349 […]