Staff representatives have criticised the “extreme expansion policy” of struggling industrial firm A-Tec.The company faces bankruptcy, and reports have it that A-Tec planned to get rid of its subsidiary Austrian Energy & Environment (AE&E) to avoid a collapse.A-Tec puts the dire state of the firm down to cost overruns on a project by AE&E in […]
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A 22-year-old Viennese locked away his wife for more than seven months, it has emerged.Mario Hejl, a spokesman for police in the capital, confirmed a report by daily Heute today (Thurs). Hejl explained: “Vienna police deliberately decided not to make the case public since it was considered unsuitable.”The spokesman said the suspect had been arrested […]
A Bulgarian tried to smuggle six kangaroos and more than 50 birds from the Netherlands into his homeland, Austrian border officials have revealed.Officials in Nickelsdorf, Burgenland, on the Austrian-Hungarian border said today (Fri) they stopped the lorry during a traffic check campaign yesterday.”The man told us he bought the six kangaroos and 52 rare birds […]
Political exports praised the “new spirit” between Washington and Russia as one of the most spectacular espionage cases came to an end in Vienna today (Fri).US officials arrived with ten suspected spies 10 men and one women to Vienna International Airport (VIA) around midday, while a plane from Moscow carried four suspected male […]
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A 12-year-old Vienna boy has been caught with a pocket full of condoms after breaking into a sex shop on Saturday evening.Police in the capital said today (Mon) Turkish teen Ali A. was stopped with 15 condoms in his pockets outside the store in Donaustadt district.”Officers arrived minutes after the shops automatic break-in alarm went […]
The outlook for flights in Austrian airspace is good for the next few days, a spokesman for Austria air-traffic control agency Austro Control said today (Weds).German news agency dpa quoted the German Flight Safety Agency (DFS) today as saying that “Europe remains free of ash” despite the continued eruption of a volcano on Eyjafjalla glacier […]
The Social Democrats (SPÖ) fear that a future British Conservative Party government would have “negative implications,” according to SPÖ federal manager Laura Rudas.Speaking today (Fri) Rudas said that such a government would constitute a set-back for efforts to make Europe “more social and for more regulation and control of financial markets. It would be more […]
Social Democratic (SPÖ) Chancellor Werner Faymann has said he expects this evenings (Fri) summit of Euro zone heads of state and government “to send a clear signal to the markets and to people in Europe.”Faymanns spokesman Leo Szemeliker added today that the chancellor wanted the summit to agree on a rescue package for bankrupt Greece […]
Austrian experts are at odds over whether officials reacted correctly to the eruption of an Icelandic volcano, while FlyNiki boss Niki Lauda considers suing aviation safety organisation Eurocontrol.Fritz Pachowsky, aviation engineering lecturer at Viennas Technical University (TU), said today (Mon): “Shutting down the whole European airspace for several days is like sending someone with a […]
The Greens have called for a 100-million-Euro victims fund for people suffering abuse at Catholic institutions.The partys juridical issues spokesman Albert Steinhauser said yesterday (Mon) 100 million Euros should be the first benchmark before discussing further action.Steinhauser accused the government coalition formed by the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) of […]