Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) has postponed the introduction of a controversial new return ticket system after being flooded with hundreds of complaints.The debt-stricken company reduced the validity period of return tickets from one month to just two days for trips of 100 kilometres and more in December. Reports have it that ÖBB failed to inform […]
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The number of bankruptcies declined by nearly six per cent year on year in 2010, it has been announced.Creditreform, an Austrian association for the protection of creditors, said today (Mon) that officials handled 6,657 cases of broke companies last year. It said this was a 5.9 per cent decrease compared to 2009 figures. Creditreform added […]
Rioting boozer arrested
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A drunken pub-goer has been put into custody after attacking a waitress.The 28-year-old turned violent after being asked to pay the 18-Euro bill for six large beers at the pub in the Viennese district of Simmering yesterday afternoon (Thurs). He attacked staff and damaged some of the pubs interior.The inns manager called the police who […]
Federal Railways (ÖBB) is in hot water after it emerged the company drastically reduced the validity period of return tickets.Austrian newspapers report today (Thurs) that return tickets are valid for just two days as of now instead of one month. Some dailies claim ÖBB did not inform its customers about the change at stations or […]
More than 10 per cent of young Austrians are not in employment, education or training, it has emerged.The European Commissions (EC) statistic body Eurostat announced yesterday (Weds) that 10.1 per cent of Austrians aged between 20 and 24 were out of work, education and traineeships in 2008. The authority, which did not provide more recent […]
Miners trapped as EVN cuts off energy
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Dozens of Bulgarian miners were trapped below ground after an Austrian energy provider turned of the mines electricity supply over unpaid bills, it has emerged.Bulgarian newspapers revealed yesterday (Weds) 80 workers were caught in shafts in the Balkan 2000 mine near the town Tvardiza for more than four hours on 28 December after Maria Enzersdorf-based […]
Austria’s unemployment rate has dropped, half a year before the country must fully open its labour market to workers from European Union (EU) states in Eastern Europe (EE).Statistik Austria announced today (Weds) 179,000 people were out of work in the fourth quarter of 2010, down by 21,000 or 10.6 per cent compared to the same […]
Around 145,000 people used Viennas 24-hour underground service on New Years Eve, it has been announced.Public transport agency Wiener Linien said today (Tues) the 145,000 registered passengers made last Fridays New Years Eve the busiest night since it started offering U-Bahn operations throughout the night on weekends and before national holidays.Around 750,000 celebrated New Years […]
Trust poll shocks quarrelling government
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The Austrian government has suffered heavily over the level of trust it enjoys, a new poll shows.Research firm Karmasin found that 67 per cent of Austrians have less trust now in the joint administration of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the conservative Peoples Party (ÖVP) than they had one year ago.The agency, which spoke to around […]
Around one million Austrians now and then work illegally, according to a new study.Friedrich Schneider of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz said today (Tues) that a million of the overall 8.5 million Austrians occasionally work without letting labour officials and insurance companies know of their activities.The university professor explained “around 100,000 to 200,000” Austrians […]