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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Frank Stronach inaugurated his new regional party office in Eisenstadt (Burgenland) yesterday (Thursday). Around 100 people gathered outside the Team Stronach office in the Neusiedler Strasse to celebrate. The Austro-Canadian businessman and party leader Frank Stronach shook everyone’s hand and held a speech on his political and economic philosophy. He then dedicated some time to […]
Fraud probe over school registration
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The judiciary is still dealing with fake registrations of students in Burgenland. Students were registered as residence in several municipalities in order to stop the closing of schools. New charges have now been filed. The public prosecutor’s office of Vienna has now made further charges against the mayor of Deutsch Schützen, Franz Wachter (ÖVP), the […]
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 […]
Grasser sues the Republic of Austria
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The launch of the hearing of Karl-Heinz Grasser, the former Minister of Finance, against the Republic of Austria has been postponed. Mr Grasser is suing the prosecutors as they launched a press release regarding searches at his house. Mr Grasser claims that the civil charges are an infringement of his personal rights and constitute damage […]
Vienna sees big rent prices increase
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Rental prices for office space in the Austrian capital of Vienna is some of the most expensive in Europe. Experts from property company EHL Immobilien also warn that the rental prices will continue to rise. In top locations such as Vienna’s first district location Kohlmarkt office space goes for 390 Euro per M2 per month. […]
Kid dumped on the way to Berlin
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Austrian police are hunting a refugee family from Syria who dumped one of their children at the train station in Vienna after discovering that they didn’t have enough money to buy all three of their children a ticket for the final part of their journey to Berlin. The family of five had reportedly paid smugglers […]
Police were called after Kurdish demonstrators burst into the Turkish airlines office in the first district of Vienna. In total ten activists stormed the office the Operngasse 3 in the late afternoon and the protest ended when one of the staff at the airline used a pepper spray that left several people hospitalised. The activists […]
Social Democratic (SPÖ) Chancellor Werner Faymann is still facing abuse of office charges, it emerged yesterday (Thurs). The Chief Prosecution of Vienna (OStA) announced it advised prosecutors to keep examining whether Faymann applied pressure on state-funded railroad company Federal Railways (ÖBB) over a series of ads in Austria’s most popular newspaper. There have been contradictory […]
ÖVP rejects ORF relocation
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The People’s Party (ÖVP) has appealed to ORF bosses to rethink their intention to relocate the broadcaster’s headquarters. ORF general director Alexander Wrabetz is understood to be keen on building a new ORF head office in Vienna-Landstraße. The state-funded broadcasting corporation has its headquarters in the Viennese district of Hietzing at the moment. The building […]