FK Austria Vienna are under pressure against Wacker Innsbruck tomorrow (Sat). Sport papers claim that Ivica Vastic is at risk of getting sacked less than half a year after his assignment as coach. The club suffered a humiliating 0-1 defeat against Kapfenberg last weekend. Wiener Neustadt play FC Admira while Mattersburg face leaders Red Bull […]
Full transparency regarding the subsidisation of parties has been identified as the most urgent issue in fighting corruption in a poll. Viennese research centre Karmasin spoke with 500 Austrians for magazine profil. The agency made several suggestions to the interviewed voters about how to fight political corruption. The people the agency spoke with were allowed […]
Austrian builders are starting to feel the pressure of competition from abroad. Since the opening of the domestic market to firms from EU countries more and more foreign firms are setting up business in Austria. Spokeswoman for the builders Maria Epple said: “It is not just the lower wage costs but also the fact that […]
The education ministry has said it could imagine upping charges for truancy. People’s Party (ÖVP) Integration Secretary Sebastian Kurz announced yesterday (Mon) the families of pupils who were caught skipping lessons should face higher penalties. Kurz told radio Ö1 that the maximum charge of 220 Euros was too low in his opinion. He claimed that […]
Football legend Franz Beckenbauer has harshly criticised Red Bull Salzburg’s (RBS) strategy. The ex-Germany captain told the Salzburger Nachrichten on Saturday: “A team have to find each other and ‘grow’, but there have been too many changes going on at Red Bull (Salzburg). Every year, there is another wave of new players. How is that […]
A two-year-old girl underwent surgery after she was bitten in the face by a dog.The child was attacked by a friends Border Collie at a garden party in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, yesterday (Tues). The canine reportedly bit the kid when she tried to catch a tennis ball herself and that others had thrown into the air.The […]
A worker maintaining a snow-making machine had to be hospitalised after a water hose burst.Officials in the Salzburg ski resort of Obertauern said today (Thurs) the 50-year-old mans right leg was seriously injured by pieces of metal hurled into the air due to the water pressure in the incident which happened yesterday afternoon.Obertauern is one […]
Consumer rights watchdogs have called on political decision-makers to take action as food is getting more expensive.Labour Chamber (AK) research focusing on the 41 most common products of daily life shows that Austrians are currently forced to fork out four per cent more for the same goods at supermarkets than in January. Flour price rates […]
The number of trains arriving on time in Austria is on the rise, it has been announced.Federal Railways (ÖBB) said today (Thurs) 94.2 per cent of all of its services were less than five minutes late last year, up from 90.5 per cent in 2009. The company added 97.6 per cent of its trains went […]
Energy sector giant Verbund AG has suffered a turnover decrease.The Viennese firm, in which the Republic of Austria holds a 51 per cent interest, said today (Weds) its turnover shrank by five per cent to 3.3 billion Euros in 2010. Verbund added that its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) declined by 15.4 […]