Vienna officials sick 20 days per year

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Vienna’s officials are sick 20 days a year, the Austrian People’s Party ÖVP has said.The ÖVP has blamed mobbing and bad working environment in offices for the high amount of sick days.”To work for the city of Vienna makes you sick,” ÖVP representative Wolfgang Ulm said during the current Viennese election campaign.”Public officials in Lower […]

Leaked report links Chechen president with refugee killing

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Politics

Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov is accused of having masterminded the foiled abduction of a refugee who was killed in Vienna last year, according to a leaked secret service report.A top secret document of Austria’s federal office for constitutional protection and the fight against terrorism (LVT) that fell into the hands of a journalist at Viennese […]

Vienna street to be named after ‘Tiger’ Zeman

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Sports

Vienna officials announced today (Tues) that a street will be named after Rapid Vienna legend Walter Zeman.A ceremony to mark the naming of the street in Donaustadt district will take place on Friday.Zeman is regarded as one of Austria’s best goalkeepers of all time. He played for Rapid between 1945 and 1961 and was called […]

Unmanned horse carriage bolts in Vienna

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Two cars were damaged after an unmanned fiaker horse carriage bolted in the city centre last night (Sun).Police in the capital said today the two horses ran off in front of the Albertina museum after their driver popped off to get them some food.A passing car startled them, causing them to bolt, and the quick-thinking […]

Police warn about fake brand chainsaws

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Burgenland police warned people today (Mon) against purchasing smuggled Asian chainsaws being sold on the street by Eastern Europeans, mostly Romanians, as STIHL products.The saws, produced in Asia and smuggled into Europe by sea, sell for 25 Euros at home but are being hawked in Austria at a price of 300 Euros under a fake […]