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The prime candidate of the Austrian Liberals, Heide Schmidt, criticises the situation of the food market in Austria, and her political opponents.
Heide Schmidt claims that Social Minister Buchinger (Socialdemocrats) tries to throw grains of sand in the eyes of the Austrians.

The liberal politican explained that high food prices are not made by inadequate control mechanisms [...]

The Südbahnhof in Vienna was elected by regular passengers of the Austrian railway to Austrias most ugliest railway station.
Also the railway station in Salzburg seems to be not that popular as expected. Its disillusioning placement was the second last place of the ranking.

The most beautiful railway station in Austria can be found in Upper Austrias [...]

Three Football Euro 2008 matches were hosted in Klagenfurt.
There was hope for glamorous business with football fans, but when the event was over, the disappointment was huge.

Klagenfurts landlords are upset. The medias got the blame. They frightened the citizens with horrible stories about 5.000 English hooligans who wanted to have revenge for the elimination of [...]

If you ever wanted to buy a railway line in Austria, this might be the right time for you.
The Austrian Federal Railways offer some of its railway lines for sale.

Following railway lines can be bought: Breitstetten to Orth on the Danube river (from 0,00 km to 5,857 km).
The line from Klein St. Paul-Wietersdorf (17.800 km) [...]

A little boy of 9 years from the Lower Austrian town of Baden was able to buy a gun.
His mother could not believe her eyes when she saw her son playing with an armed weapon. When she took the firearm, and wanted to bring it back to the shop, she could not believe her ears.

The [...]

The 3.600 inhabitants town of St. Michael in the South Eastern corner of the Salzburg province, seems to become a part of the Netherlands.
Dutch people are crazy for real estates in St. Michael. If a house is for sale, the possibility is very high that it’s bought by someone from the Netherlands.

The beautyful scenery of [...]

Even two travel agencies from Tirol are among the 10 most successful travel agencies in Austria.
This is the result of a ranking created by the Austrian credit investigation company (Kreditschutzverband).

Every travel agency in Austria which has annual sales of more than 15 million Euro was reviewed. 30 different factors were considered, and influenced the raking.
The [...]

The trade union of the private employees is anxious because Austrian employees work too hard.
An inquiry revealed that Austrians make too few breaks during work. Especially in little enterprises 50 percent of the staff has to work without breaks.

This is the reason for an action week of the trade union to create a more positive [...]

The famous Austrian hotel and holiday website “Tiscover”, was sold by “Tirol Werbung” to the German HRS company from Cologne.
HRS is a Hotel Reservation Service, operates world wide, and has more than 225.000 hotels in its database.

The federal president of Tirol is very happy about the deal. “We sold to the one who was ready [...]

Jelena Baturina is Russias richest woman.
She is the wife of Moscows mayor Juri Luschkow, and bought a house in the Tirolean village of Aurach, which is located close to the town of Kitzbuhel.

As a citizen of Russia, she does not have an EU passport. Because of that she would not be allowed to buy real [...]

A study of the Austrian representation of employees revealed the thoughts and the situation of the working people in Austria.
The result: older employees are not so happy with their work. Young employees are happy about their job, but unhappy with their salary.

Even 26 percent of all workers in Austria think they earn less than they [...]

A survey of the institute for profession and grown up educations research revealed that 1.044.000 people who are living in Austria are poor.
The survey was made in the university of Linz. The data were provided by “Statistik Austria”.

There are more poor women in Austria, than poor men.
The most affected age group are people over 65 [...]

A new survey revealed that the Football Euro in Austria this year, should bring 11.000 new jobs. 6.000 of those jobs should stay permanent.
Most of the employments are located in the low wage sector of security companies.

The demand on the new jobs is huge. Many jobless people are interested.
Besides the security service, also the gastronomy [...]

There is a new website about the creativity of Austrias advertising industry.
The main target of the project is the advertising on hoardings and billboards in Austria. It should be a virtual introduction of Austrias advertising creations to the world.

The first advertising of advertisinginaustria.com is an election campaign poster of the Socialdemocrats in November 2002. “Every [...]

The most popular christmas present in Austria is the mobile phone, shows the latest survey of the opinion research institute “market”.
Also one of the top christmas presents in Austria this year are books and gift certificates. But nothing can beat the mobile phone.

Especially young people love mobile phones. Every fourth young person in Austria thinks [...]

The 8th December is a bank holiday in Austria, but usually because of the christmas shopping and its fabulous sales, the day became more and more a normal shopping day in Austria over the last years.
Now the supermarket chain called “Billa” wants set an example and remind on the religious background of the bank holiday. [...]

A butcher from Ried in Upper Austria has found a profitable gap in the market for his enterprise.
He sends tons of pigs ears to China.
Nobody in Austria is interested to have pigs ears for a meal. In China it’s a delicacy. Chinese love to eat pigs ears.

2.000 pigs are slaughtered every day in the butchery [...]

The international fast food chain “Mc Donalds” is the official sponsor of the UEFA European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.
The message of the fast food group is crystal clear: “Austria should eat more hamburgers and support its team.”

For these purposes McDonalds is going to offer live matches on flat screens in all of [...]

The politicans of Vienna are shocked: according to the latest knowledge of the “Austrian Insitute For Economic Research”, Vienna takes the last place of Austrias federal states in economic growth.

Mourners of such a result are the citizens of Vienna. High charges are still increased, to balance the mismanagement. Another result of the disaster is the [...]

The 28th July 2007 was an historical date for the airport in Klagenfurt. 3.000 passengers were dispatched. This is the highest amount of passengers in the history of the airport.

Reason of the high appearance of passengers was the high season during summer, and a lot of departures and arrivals of scheduled flights. Usually from and [...]

Hinterstoder is on the top of the list of Upper Austrias highest in debt municipalities.
The indebtedness per head of Hinterstoder amounts 11.000 EUR. This is more than the double of Unterweitersdorf, which is the municipality in the second place.
The Upper Austrian municipality with the lowest debts is Mayrhofen im Innviertel. The village with 257 inhabitants [...]

The Italian company “SLI Società Imprese Lignano” is interested to buy the centre of Austrias famous spa resort Bad Gastein, and invest 100 mio EUR for the renovation of the decayed centre of the town.
SLI Società Imprese Lignano is operator of the beach in Lignano, the thermal springs, the camping site, the congress and the [...]

The Southern part of Styria is the home of the Austrian cement manufacturer “Lafarge Perlmooser Zementwerk”.
Lafarge Perlmooser is continuing its investment policy, and want to rely more and more on green fuels.
After the activation of its first project, the extention of its substitute fuel program is another important decision of the company,

The first project was [...]

The centre of Bad Gastein, directly next to the world famous water fall, looks empty and decayed.
A speculator from Vienna bought all the houses around the main square. As no interesting buyers shows up, the houses stay empty and decay from year to year. An unworthy image for a sophisticated tourist place like Bad Gastein.

Now [...]

Yesterday the leaders of the social partners in Austria came to the agreement of a 1.000 EUR monthly minimum wage in Austria.
20.000 employees in the industry and about 10.000 in free professions are affected.
The president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber was not so sure if he should give his agreement. “It was not so [...]

The city of Salzburg has the most expensive owner-occupied flats and houses in Austria. This shows the new survey of immobilien.net.
Flats for renting are the most popular way of living in the city of Mozart.
The demand for flats is increasing more and more. Especially high-cost flats are the most desired ones in Salzburg.
Owner-occupied flats, houses, [...]

The exhausting conditions of trainees in Austria rises evermore, is the result of a survey of the Austrian Trade Union.
The pressure in their apprenticeship places increases. The trainees resign medical attention, because they are afraid to be stamped as “psycho”.
In the most cases the exhausted teenagers do not receive support from their parents either. “Trainee [...]