Austria News

A female politican of the Freedom party worries about the existance of a traditional Austrian snack bar (Würstelstand)  in Vienna. In her latest press release she declares that somebody from Turkey wants to take the place and sell Turkish delicacies like some kind of kebab creations there. She labels such efforts as “inconceivable” and cofirm [...]

Socialdemocrat and minister of defence Norbert Darabos declared during an interview with the daily newspaper called “Österreich” that his biggest dream would be to save some money for his native country. Darabos wants to economize more than 300 spies in the Austrian secret service. He also explained a professional army would cost the double if [...]

The highly gifted swimmer and brother of the famous Mirna Jukic decided to become a politican of the Peoples Party. He wants to run for a post as a prime candidate in the Meidling district in the next communal elections. Viennas Peoples Party boss Christine Marek is very excited about such a reenforcement in her [...]

The Austrian actor and theatre director Karl Heinz Hackl wrote a very angry open letter to Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache. The profound aversion is really noticeable in his emotional lines. Hackl wrote that a refusal of the Freedom party is the duty of any democratic party. “Male and female, as well as young [...]

The Albanian girl called Arigona Zogaj, who is living in Austria since several years and became a headliner because of her vigorous resistance of leaving Austria, is confronted with another decision to leave the country. This time the demand note comes from the Constitutional Court and seems to be quite serious. Even her closest friend, [...]

Austrias politicans promise a new law for the gambling market in Austria. According to the latest press release of Peoples party politican Dr. Reinhold Lopatka, the new law should be ready very soon. The politican promised that it should stop the uncontrolled growth of illegal slot machines, and increase the protection of the gamblers. The [...]

In Austrias daily newspaper called “Österreich”, the boss of Austrias Broadcasting Corporation declared that he would accept an imprisonment for contempt to defend basic value of journalism. The reason of his sorrows are based on a scandal of a TV documentary report which was brought on a channel of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation about politically [...]

Greece is in its deepest financial crisis. European politicans discuss about giving some money to the broke member of the European Union. Especially Germany should pay a lot, but also Austria is designated as contributor. Freedom parties leader HC Strache is not happy about that. In his latest press release he labeled the increase of [...]

Heinz Fischer is Austrias old and new president. He received 78,9 percent of all valid votes. His competitor Barbara Rosenkranz received 15,6 percent, and Gehring who wanted to bring more Christian religion into Austrian politics 5,4 percent. The first statements of the candidates. Heinz Fischer: “Fantastic majority.” Barbara Rosenkranz: “Quite respectable.” Rudolf Gehring: “I started [...]

The honoree was the bouncer of a famous Viennese disco for many years. He is a native Munich, came to Vienna in the age of 18, and started to work as a bouncer at the beginning of the 80′s. “Generations of young Viennese nighthawks met this special bouncer at the door of the famous disco”, [...]

Austrias daily newspaper “Die Presse” asks if Austrias president Heinz Fischer, who contests for a second time in office, is sanctimonious. The reason of such a question is based on his statements about invalid polling. Heinz Fischer confirmed on Sundays TV shows “Pressestunde” that invalid polling depends on everyones attitude on democracy. “Democracy means decision”, [...]

Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache is threatend with death by a 13-year-old boy from Vienna in a Youtube music video. The young boy claims that he is going to force Strache to commit suicide. Strache is labeled as scum, nazi, racist, xenophobe, and clown in that video. The Freedom party is upset about such [...]

The acting federal president Heinz Fischer starts in the election campaign for his reelection. Fischer told that Austrians should not vote invalid. He is afraid that many votes are going to be lost, because the Peoples party resigned to choose a candidate for this election. The acting predisent was talking about a society which should [...]

Public opinion polls against camps for asylum seekers are quite in fashion in Austrias eastern province Burgenland these days. Already for the second time within a short period the people in Burgenland were called to the urns, to decide if there should be camps for asylum seekers or not. Also the second time the result was [...]

The leader of the Green party in Austria Eva Glawischnig proclaimed in Austrian TV that the candidate for the presidential election Barbara Rosenkranz “is a disgrace for Austria.” Glawischnig confirmed that she thinks the resignation of her candidateship would be the best for all. Glawischnig also told whom she is going to vote for the [...]

The Freedom party complains in a press release about a gross disadvantage in the TV coverage of Austrias Broadcasting Corporation “ORF”. Freedom parties general secretary Harald Vilimsky was talking about “agitation programs against his party” and used the turn of expression that such a behaviour of the medias “takes the biscuit.” The upset politican explains [...]

Yesterday Austrias Chancellor Werner Faymann declared that Mongolia is an important partner in Asia. The reason for such a statement was the visit of Mongolias premier minister Suchbaatar Batbold. Faymann and Batbold were talking about economical and democracy political issues. Faymann said that the bilateral relations between Austria and Mongolia are brillant. There are cultural [...]

Vorarlbergs Green politican Harald Walser was never happy with Barbara Rosenkranz being the candidate of the Freedom party for the next Federal President election. Now he even demands a cancellation of her candidateship. Walser explains his demand with following words: “Her contradictory statements about our prohibition law are embarrassing.” The man from Austrias Western province [...]

Austrias daily newspaper “Österreich” reports about a request of Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache. Strache asked the intelligence service for bodyguards payed by tax money for his evening night club, disco and ball tours. Reason: Strache was several times molested by angry nighthawks. Last time during the Jägerball (hunters ball) in the Viennese Hofburg. [...]

The 51-year-old married mother of 10 children runs for the next election to become Austrias Federal President. She is the candidate of the Freedom party, against the acting president of the Socialdemocrats Heinz Fischer. Barbara Rosenkranz is also supported by Austrias biggest newspaper Kronen Zeitung. All other daily newspapers are not that excited about her. [...]

The minister president of Carinthia is not satisfied with his salary. In the Friday issue of Austrias biggest newspaper “Kronen Zeitung” he is quoted as saying that he earns less than a floor tiler. An hourly wage of 16 Euro is not enough for a minister president, he thinks. Cartinthias opposition parties can’t agree in [...]

Yesterday the referendum about the erection of the controversial asylum seekers hostel in the Burgenland village of Eberau took place. The result was crystal clear. More than 90 percent of the inhabitants are against asylum seekers in their village. The mayor of Eberau (Peoples party) confirmed the result yesterday at 10:30pm. 801 valid votes were [...]

Viennas political parties argue about the 25 percent polling of the Socialdemocrat organized public opinion poll. The opposition parties sneer about a very small polling and talk about a “rout for the Socialdemocrats”. But the Socialdemocrats themselfes triumph and think that a polling of 25 percent is an unbelievable success. Viennas provincial party secretary of [...]

A betting cafe in the Lower Austrian town of Amstetten enrages the flared tempers of the Green party. Already since several weeks the Greens moan and wail about its existence. The bizarre thing about the whole case is the fact that the betting cafe is closed since last month. The district commission of Amstetten confirms [...]

The discussions about the new asylum plans of the government turns out to be an emotional conflict between the social democratic chancellor Werner Faymann and the Interior Minister of the Peoples party Maria Fekter. Faymann thinks that a “general imprisonment” of all asylum seekers makes no sense to him. “The Socialdemocrats won’t agree in such [...]

A higher salary for policemen demands the leader of the Freedom party Heinz Christian Strache. During his latest press conference yesterday, he claimed that Austria stands close before a collapse of safety. More money for policemen should improve the situation, he thinks. “Danger bonus for policemen”, is his newest election battle cry for the next [...]

Severe controversies in the state parliament of Lower Austria. The Freedom party demands to close the borders of Austria to decrease the crime. Greens are talking about “racism”. The Lower Austrian Freedom party whip Gottfried Waldhäusl explains: “70.000 offences of non-Austrians are enough. There is only one relief. We need to close our borders.” “Every [...]

Viennas university for applied art has awarded an international competition for the reshaping of the Karl Lueger monument. Karl Lueger was the mayor of Vienna from 1897 to 1910. The Freedom party is not excited about such plan and labels the competition as “iconoclasm”. “The monument should not be removed”, explains one of the responsible [...]

The performance of Austrias agricultural minister Niki Berlakovich of the Peoples party during a live show on Austrian TV last Sunday, does not answer the expectations of the Freedom party. The agricultural spokesman of the Freedom party Harald Jannach discloses in his first reaction that the minister sould know that “agricultural politics is no funfair [...]

The Freedom party has doubts about the right mindset of immigrants about democracy. A “democracy test” should be the right answer to such a development and remove all scepsis. Especially if someone, who came from a foreign country, wants to receive a sponsored flat, the successful result of such kind of test should be the [...]