Austrian Peoples Party (ÖVP) Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and his Slovene counterpart Samuel Zbogar will meet on 16 March in Vienna, it was announced yesterday (Weds).Slovene news agency STA said yesterday that Zbogar would raise the situation of the Slovene minority in Carinthia at the meeting, including failure to put up bilingual place name signs […]
The pressure on Social Democratic (SPÖ) Chancellor Werner Faymann is increasing as new research reveals he has been overtaken by Peoples Party (ÖVP) Vice Chancellor Josef Pröll in popularity.Research firm Karmasin found out 27 per cent of Austrians would support Pröll if they could elect the chancellor by direct vote but only 24 per cent […]
Austria is to give a six million-Euro subsidy towards the renovation of Auschwitz concentration camp memorial site in Poland, it was announced today (Tues).Peoples Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Josef Pröll said: “Our plan is to contribute around six million Euros. Thats the benchmark.”Pröll stressed this would be exactly a tenth of the amount of Germanys […]
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An Upper Austrian mayor has received a praline box containing two dead mice and an anonymous, threatening letter, according to website krone.at.Walter Ernhard, the Social Democratic (SPÖ) mayor of Ansfelden in Upper Austrias Linz-Land district, confirmed the report and said today (Fri) he was very disturbed by the package.Ernhard said he had received it on […]
Vienna opposition party leaders have attacked the ruling Social Democrats (SPÖ) after it emerged that the majority of residents taking part in a referendum back a 24-hour underground train service at the weekend.SPÖ Councillor Sandra Frauenberger announced today (Tues) around 54 per cent of people participating supported of an around the clock U-Bahn service on […]
The Greens are to decide on whether or not to nominate a presidential candidate this month, party leader Eva Glawischnig revealed today (Tues).She said: “There are still contrary opinions within the party over the issue,” adding that the opposition party would make a decision at a meeting of its federal board on 19 February.Presidential elections […]
The Austrian Jewish Community (IKG) yesterday (Weds) condemned a recent Freedom Party (FPÖ) meeting with the far-right Hungarian Jobbik party.IKG said it was angry that “democratic parties had said nothing” about the FPÖs contact with “the openly neo-fascist Hungarian Jobbik party.”FPÖ foreign affairs spokesman and MP Johannes Hübner admitted yesterday that Jobbik members had visited […]