Triathlete Hannes Hempel renounced doing the B-test after his positive doping test result in a training control on 8 March. He also announced his immediate retirement. The 39-year-old man from Carinthia, who was banned for four years in 2008, could have been banned again for a long time. “From my experience I can tell that […]
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The designated chief of the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) has called for an increase of the retirement age. Christian Keuschnigg, who is set to succeed Bernhard Felderer as head of the renowned research group next month, said such a measure would not cause an unacceptable amount of pressure on the Austrian social systems. Keuschnigg […]
AMS reports rise in joblessness
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Unemployment in Austria is increasing, new figures show. The Austrian Labour Market Service (AMS) said yesterday (Tues) 321,800 people had no job last month, 6.7 per cent more than in April 2011. This figure considers jobless people attending education courses and traineeships organised by the AMS. Their number climbed by seven per cent to nearly […]
An economist has dismissed claims that a higher pension age means more unemployment. Former Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) chief Helmut Kramer said yesterday (Thurs) it was nothing but a “myth” that the number of young people out of work will rise if the average retirement age increases. “There is no connection between a later […]
Widespread worry of poor care
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Nearly one of two Austrians fear being unable to finance appropriate old-age care for themselves.GfK Austria said today (Fri) 49 per cent of the polled citizens of all age groups said they are afraid of possessing too low assets to pay for good care in case they need it when they get older. The agency […]
WWII bomb found in river
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An aerial bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was defused and removed in less than 30 minutes in a town in Upper Austria yesterday (Tues).Explosives experts decided to evacuate the surrounding area within 400 metres after the World War Two (WWII) era bomb was discovered in the Enns River in Steyr.A road and a railway line […]
A dementia sufferer has died shortly after he was found lying on an agricultural field near Haslach wearing nothing but pyjamas, a vest and slippers.The 92-year-old Upper Austrian man was reported as missing by retirement home staff at 1am on Thursday morning. He was rushed to a clinic in Rohrbach after a police tracking dog […]
An elderly man survived several hours at subzero temperatures after going for a walk in the middle of the night.The dementia sufferer, 92, was reported as missing by staff at a retirement home in Haslach, Upper Austria, around 1am last night (Weds/Thurs). He was found by a police sniffer dog lying on an agricultural field […]
Austria has made the top three in a humiliating European Union (EU) retirement age ranking.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures presented today (Weds) reveal that Belgium and France were the only other EU member states with a comparably low average pensioning age as Austria where men retire on average at 59 and […]
‘Racist’ Vienna policemen in court
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Four Vienna policemen are accused of racially insulting a Turkish-born Austrian Olympic athlete.Viennese taekwondo star Tuncay Caliskan who came fourth in the 2000 Olympic Games and also qualified for the event four years later claims the officers verbally abused him when he tried to report an attempted assault on him in the street.Caliskan […]