In comparison to European regions, Tyrol and Salzburg have the lowest regional unemployment. Most unemployment occurs in the regions of Spain and Greece. Tyrol and Salzburg registered an unemployment rate 2.5 percent each in 2012. This was followed by four regions in Germany with 2.7 and 2.9 percent. Upper Austria and Styria are also among […]
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Women safer than men on roads
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Drink-drivers, speeders and drivers who routinely forget to wear their seatbelt are mostly men, statistics from the Austrian traffic club reveal. According to the research, women in Burgenland (eastern Austria) are much safer on the road than men. Indeed, women are generally three times safer than men on the road. Traffic club (Verkehrsclub Österreich, VCÖ) […]
Almost a quarter of all the weddings in Austria are binational according to the latest statistics from Statistik Austria. It said that 23.5 percent of marriages fall into this category were either one partner is an Austrian and the other a foreign national – or both are foreign nationals. In 2010 that represented 8,823 binational […]
63 deaths in Tyrolean moutains this summer
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By Rebecca Musgrave This summer, 63 people lost their lives and more than 1,000 people were injured in the Alps in Tyrol, Austria. As the popularity of the mountains increases it appears so have the casualties. Both numbers have increased in the last year in Tyrol with almost half of all Austrian mountain accidents taking […]
Social network platforms have the capability to harm companies reputation, an online strategies expert has warned.Josef Barth, who managed incumbent president Heinz Fischers 2010 election campaigns internet activities, said today (Thurs) firms should not remove unpleasant postings but honestly respond to accusations they contained.Barth, a former journalist for political weekly profil, stressed this was the […]