A Styrian company specialised in solar energy generation has received assignments worth 17.4 million Euros overall from businesses and town halls overseas.Graz-based Solid GmbH said today (Fri) it will install solar-powered heating and cooling systems at a school, a hotel and seven prisons in the US state of Arizona.It is not the first time for […]
The six-person Vienna migrant family facing eviction from their apartment because of the behaviour of an autistic 16-year-old boy will not be left homeless, according to city government officials.A court has ordered the Turkish familys eviction by the middle of November after neighbours complaints about the boys loud and aggressive behaviour.Social workers visited the family […]
Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger has called for an end to “EU enlargement fatigue”.”The economic crisis should not be an excuse for enlargement fatigue,” he said today (Weds), adding that closer relations between states in the western Balkans and the European Union were in “Austrias own interest.”He called on the European Union […]
The Council of Carinthian Slovenes executive committee voted yesterday (Tues) in favour of its dissolution, head Karel Smolle announced.The decision must be approved by the Councils delegates at its 29 March meeting in order to become effective.Council deputy leader Rudi Vouk said the reason for the vote was the Slovene governments decision to cut its […]
Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and his Slovene counterpart Samuel Zbogar will meet on 16 March in Vienna, it was announced yesterday (Weds).Slovene news agency STA said yesterday that Zbogar would raise the situation of the Slovene minority in Carinthia at the meeting, including failure to put up bilingual place name signs […]