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A survey of the Viennese opinion research institute “Makam”, shows that nine of ten Austrians have fun during work. The working atmosphere is the most important thing for the Austrian worker. Much more than the salary. Only 4 percent of the Austrians feel no fun when they have to work, but 2/3 say that working [...]

Today austrianews.co.uk is one year old! The website went online in the evening of the 14th September 2006. The first article was written in the next morning on the 15th September about Austrian politicans: “Charges against Strache and Westenthaler”. At the moment austrianews.co.uk has 355 articles and 23 comments. The first comment was written by [...]

Vienna is better than the average of the European Union in terms of quality of life. This is the result of a survey by the European Union. The best thing about Vienna is the supply of public transport. The integration of foreign persons is Viennas tender spot. Also the medical care is one of Viennas [...]

The politican Uwe Scheuch of the BZÖ party has no mercy for people who are collecting mushrooms in Carinthia, and don’t follow the rules. He wants them to pay high fines. Especially mushroomers from abroad are a thorn in his side. “I will never accept people who are just coming to Austria to loot mushrooms [...]

The animal rights spokesman of the Socialdemocratic Party Dietmar Keck is happy. “Austria has the most modern animal transport law in Europe”, he told yesterday in the National Council. Keck: “Now the European Union must take the case and guarantee the acceptation of the Austrian animal transport law for all other members of the European [...]

The importance of marriages in Austria is still going down. 2006 was a record year of divorces. Vienna is the top leader in the Austrian divorce statistics. 65,85 percent, almost two of three marriages, get divorced. The two best provinces in Austria to be married are Tirol (37,55 % divorces) and Upper Austria (39,50 % [...]

The heatwave these days in Austria increases the demand for ice cream. The latest survey of GfK shows the ice cream preferences of the Austrians. 25 percent of the Austrians prefer vanilla ice cream. People from Vienna eat the fewest amounts of ice cream, compared to the Austrians of other federal states. The ranking of [...]

The mobile phone is becoming more and more important for the average Austrian. Eleven percent of the Austrians can imagine to live without a television set, 6 percent without a car, but only four percent can imagine to live without a mobile phone. 89 percent of the Austrians always have a mobile phone in their [...]

The Socialdemocrat Helmut Hirt, who is the District Administrator for health in Styria, wants a stronger taxation on unhealthfully products. In return the prices for healthy food should be lower. Hirt says the advice of the WHO, and a talk with the health minister of the European Union Markos Kyprianou, were the determining reasons for [...]

The Austrian car and motor club “ÖAMTC” made a survey about the relation of the Austrians to their cars. Every fifth Austrian has a name for his car. Names from Daisy, Baby, Ferdl, Flocki, on to Silberpfeil (silverarrow), Rocket and Kübel (bucket) are possible. One third took a credit to purchase the car. By new [...]

Bad luck for a bank robber in Vienna. He tried to rob a bank which only offers cashless payment transactions. The odd bank robbery happened yesterday afternoon in the Viennese district Hernals. The approximately 30-year-old man had a mask on his face and threatened the bank employees, but they were not able to satisfy his [...]

“What is the biggest pride of the Austrians”, was the title of the opinion survey. The results were no surprise: neutrality, Austrian way of life, cuisine, world famous musicians and on the top of the list the scenic beauties of Austria. The same survey was made in 1975. Compared with the questionnaire this year, the [...]

According to the “Eurobarometer survey” of the European Union, which was yesterday published in Brussels, the Austrians are more often drunk than other citizens of the European Union. Austria takes with Spain the two top places in the ranking. The citizens of both nations get excessive drunk several times in a week. Heavy booze nations [...]

Who makes the best chocolate in Austria, Switzerland and Germany? The “Austrian Chocolate Master” in the Viennese Hofburg should answer this question. 14 confectioner teams from Austria, Switzerland and Germany, came to Vienna to fight for the master title of the best chocolate maker. The two biggest favourite teams for the sweet title are “Cafe [...]

Today is the opening of the VenusMed-centre in the shopping mall “Lugner City”, located in the heart of Vienna. VenusMed is the first sex-centre which offers sexual medical treatments in a shopping mall in Austria. “We care for the healthy effect of a well-balanced sexual life”, says the manager of the VenusMed Brigitte Moshammer-Peter. “One [...]

A 80-year-old woman from Tirol was killed by her 69-year-old sister, because she was criticizing the food. The sentence “the noodles are overboiled and not salty enough” was the dealth penalty for a 80-year-old woman in Tirol. Her sister could not bear such critics about her culinary art, and killed the fussy eater with an [...]

On Friday the 9th February, the “Ball of the Viennese coffee house operators” celebrate its 50 years of existence. The celebration has the motto: “a melange goes around the world” and will be hosted in the Viennese Hofburg. The organizer of the ball is “the club of the Viennese coffee house operators” and there will [...]

A teacher in the Western part of the federal state Styria wanted to test his boxing skills, and knocked down a 13-year-old pupil during the break. Tragical aspect: the pupil was born with a cardiac defect and got shortness of breath. The teacher declared he felt provoked by the behaviour of the pupil. He phoned [...]

Finally the winter is here! It’s snowing in the whole area of Austria. It started in the early morning in the federal states of Tirol and Carinthia. Later also all other parts of Austria were blessed by the white powder during the morning. In the afternoon the whole country was covered white. Especially the winter [...]

The Austrian tourist industry draws a deep breath. The winter should finally come to Austria now. Since the early morning it’s snowing in Carinthia and Tirol. The new snow on the mountains counts from 10 to 20 centimetre. Car drivers need snow chains for rides on following streets: Katschberg,Turrach, Kreuzberg, Nassfeld, Wurzenpass, Loiblpass and Seeberg.

Heavy damages after the hurricane night in Austria. Especially the federal states of Lower Austria and Upper Austria were most affected. According to the federal fire-brigade headquaters of Upper Austria, the storm unroofed more than 100 houses. Two heavy injured persons were reported from Braunau who were hit in their car by a falling tree. [...]

The new rector of the Catholic Theological private univerity in Linz thinks the manufacture of aritificial snow is ethical not right. The new rector holds the view, if you are trying to make any ski slope white by force, you commit a crime on mother nature. “My problem with artificial snow is fundamental. I can [...]

The consumption of meat decreases every year about three percent. Every fifth woman stopped eating meat. The Austrians on the best was to become a nation of vegetarians? Austrians also became more sensitive about the origin of meat, quality and prefer regional products. The new food report shows that more than 50 percent of the [...]

“Santa Claus is dead”, says Christine Spiess, the boss of 360 municipal kindergartens. She declares a ban for Santa Claus on entering the kindergartens in Vienna. Even Catholic kindergartens are not allowed anymore to invite Santa Claus to meet the children. Children are afraid of Santa Claus, and after his visit many of them are [...]

Usually Mozartkugeln are manufactured in Salzburg, Vienna or Bad Reichenhall in Germany. But recently the delicious chocolate balls are also made in the Californian city of San Diego, twelve flying hours from Salzburg, and directly located on the border to Mexico. An emigrated young lady from Salzburg, the 26-year-old Isabella Valencia, creates and sells the [...]

According to a big online opinion poll with more than 10.000 participants, the Austrian real estate portal findmyhome.at found out the latest trends in living. Result: Viennese want to live at the outskirts of their city. If possible with family. The way of living is changing in Vienna. Not only the future wishes were analyzed, [...]

Traffic on icy roads in the early morning caused car accidents in whole Austria. Especially in and around the Upper Austrian capital Linz the situation was very bad. There was a multiple pile-up with 20 cars who caused delay on the road to Linz. Because of yesterdays public holiday the worst case did not happen. [...]

“What bother Austrians mostly”, was the title of the latest public opinion poll of the Austrian market research institute IMAS. The most bothering thing for Austrians is the political climate inside of Austria. Almost three-quarter of the interviewed people said they dislike the way politicans treat eachother. 62% are dissatisfied with the security of the [...]

On Thursday the 14th September 2006, the new website austrianews.co.uk goes online! We hope you enjoy the news and stories from Austria.