Defence Minister Norbert Darabos has hit back after a fellow Social Democrat (SPÖ) suggested to sell Austria’s Eurofighter jet fleet. SPÖ General Secretary Günther Kräuter said on Sunday Austria could get rid of its 15 fighter aircraft due to non-existent war concerns. Kräuter argued the alpine country was under higher financial and economic risk these […]
Thousands of litres of petrol were nicked from industrial estates in Carinthia at the weekend, police said yesterday (Mon). Officials in the district of Villach said 6,000 litres of fuel were missing after someone entered a business property in Kras. They explained that the criminals robbed fuel from the tanks of five lorries and other […]
Recent polls show that 83 per cent of Czechs believe corruption played a role in the Czech Defence Ministrys 2009 purchase of Austrian light wheeled tanks.Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge (SSF) sold 107 light-wheeled tanks to the Defence Ministry in 2009 for 559 million Euros, but Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes recently claimed that Steyr had […]
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer has said he may get the Czech secret service involved in the investigation of Austrian firm Steyrs sale of tanks to the Czech Defence Ministry.Czech business newspaper Hospodarske noviny quoted him in todays (Fri) edition as saying: “It is a question of whether the secret service has any relevant information. […]
Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer called yesterday (Mon) evening for a full investigation of the Czech Defence Ministrys purchase of 107 Austrian Pandur II light wheeled tanks in 2009.The ministry bought them from Upper Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge (SSF) for 559 million Euros. The Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes has reported that SSF bribed Czech […]
The Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes reported that Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge (SSF) had bribed Czech politicians to secure a tank deal.The newspaper said the deal was the Czech Defence Ministrys purchase of 107 Pandur II light wheeled tanks from SSF for 538 million Euros in March 2009.It added that one of its journalists posing […]
By Austrian Independent special correspondent John Morris Austrian companies from Styria, the Green Heart of Austria, travelled on a trade mission to China the last two weeks visiting Hong Zhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and Beijing to stimulate the regions economy following the deepest recession since the 1930s. Raiffeisen Zentral Bank general manager for China, Andreas Werner, […]