The Austrian post office wants to reduce the number of people having to come and pick up packages from post collection centres in the Austrian capital of Vienna. By the end of the year the postal service wants to double the number of parcel boxes in apartments blocks in the city meaning that less people […]
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Westbahnhof top Austrian train station
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The Austrian traffic club (VCÖ) has once again named vienna’s Westbahnhof train station Austria’s number one station. For the second year in a row the station was named Austria’s best station. Linz Station came number two on the list. Most improved prize went to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. The least popular were the stations Attnang-Puchheim, Bregenz and […]
AUA reveals first half-year results
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Austrian airline carrier AUA has admitted that between January and June the number of passengers fell by 3% to 5.3 million. In June it was 0.8% less than the same period the year before. Although it is a reduction Austrian Airlines is not alone in seeing a reduction in the number of passenger numbers which […]
Bad bank solution for Hypo Alpe Adria
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Austria’s national bank governor (OeNB) Ewald Nowotny has come out in favour of a “Bad Bank” model to solve the problems of the Hypo Alpe Adria (HGAA) bank. The bank in Carinthia was at the centre of a scandal after it was revealed that it had been involved in a number of questionable activities including […]
The classic idea of a family in Austria is changing. According to Statistik Austria, four in every ten families have no children. More and more married couples are choosing not to have children. There are currently 2,347,000 families in Austria, and 935,000 couples live without children in their household. In four out of ten families […]
Children-free hotel in Tyrol
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Along with hotels for people with children or hotels for dog-lovers there are also hotels that are only dedicated to adults. Posthotel Achenkirch in Tyrol (Western Austria) focuses on guests without children under the age of fourteen. Since children have been banned from the hotel, there is no longer noisy splashing in the pools and […]
The Red Bull Stratos project may have attracted a record number of viewers but it failed to deliver much of real scientific value, according to experts. Even scientists working in extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner’s hometown of Salzburg who carefully followed the project said that from a scientific point of view it delivered nothing. In Austria […]
Austrian building boom
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The Austrian building business is once again booming after the financial crisis fuelled by heavy investment in property as fears grow over financial markets. In the western Austrian province of Salzburg business is booming the most. According to the latest statistics from Statistic Austria the volume of building contracts has increased by 80 per cent […]
The number of alcohol dependent youths in Austria has doubled in the last five years, according to experts at the Wagner Jauregg Clinic in Linz. Doctors at the clinic treat more than 7,000 people a year – 1,000 of which are admitted. As well as using traditional therapies and medication to treat patients, the clinic […]
Immigrants fight beggars in Salzburg
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Austrian police were called after a group of 20 young men all with an immigrant background and armed with sticks laid siege to an abandoned factory in Salzburg where a group of Gypsy beggars had taken up residence. Police have not yet commented on the reason for the altercation but have confirmed that in general […]