A businessman from Lower Austria who wanted to take out a loan online has been conned out of 51,000 Euros. The Lower Austrian was drawn in by a tempting offer made by the fraudsters based in the UK. They promised the man a quick and easy loan of a million Euros on the condition that […]
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English made fun at new school for kids
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For Hungarian banker Karole Havasy* the offer of a senior job at a bank in the city of London was almost a dream come true but with one problem – how would her daughter Andrea, 8, who spoke only Hungarian, manage in the move to a British school? Karole had heard from pals about […]
Badly Drawn Boy Vienna date revealed
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Badly Drawn Boy will perform in Vienna later this year, it has been announced.Britishrock.cc reports today (Mon) that the Mercury Prize-awarded singer-songwriter will give a concert at the citys WUK on 16 November.The Bolton-based artist, whose real name is Damon Gough, won critical acclaim with his 2000 studio album “The Hour of Bewilderbeast”. The follow-up […]
A Northern Irish property firm is set to build a new shopping centre an hours drive from Austria after getting a multi-million Euro loan from Erste Banks Slovenska sporitelna.British media report today (Fri) that the Slovakian subsidiary of Vienna-headquartered Erste Bank teamed up with VUB bank a Slovakian competitor owned by Italys Intesa Sanpaolo […]
The Coral roll into Vienna
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Psychedelic indie rock stars The Coral are to come to Austria, it has been announced.The Hoylake-based five-member format will perform at Viennas Szene club on 29 October, according to a report by Britishrock.cc.The Coral whose sixth studio album “Butterfly House” will be released in German-speaking Europe later this month have given gigs in […]
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 […]
Austrian prosecutors will continue to investigate lobbyist Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, it has emerged.Mensdorff-Pouilly, who owns real estate in Austria and Scotland, has returned to Austria after spending five days in custody in London last month.The husband of former Peoples Party (ÖVP) Health Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat was accused of bribery and facilitation of corruption, but Britains Serious […]
Sixty-two per cent of Austrians support euthanasia by doctors for patients who request it, the results of a new poll commissioned by Graz Medical University released today (Weds) show.The percentage is 13 percentage points higher than in 2000, it said.In the poll, 66 per cent of men and 58.5 per cent of women said they […]