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The political party of the Greens celebrated its election campaign finale for the National Council election 2006.
The green member on the second place of the federal list Eva Glawischnig told her dreams and targets for that election. She wants to overtake the Freedom Party and reach the third place behind the Peoples Party and the [...]

The artist group “TresViri” wanted to remember the freedom of worship in Austria, and fixed symbols of world religions on the cross on the summit of the Schöckl mountain, close to Styrias capital Graz.
Hikers noticed four wooden plates an the strings of the summit cross. There were Islamic, Buddhist, Hinduist and Jewish symbols painted on [...]

5 days before election, the minister of justice Karin Gastinger from “Haider’s blue-orange party for the future of Austria” (short form: BZÖ) leaves the party, because she is not happy anymore with the style of its electoral battle.
Gastinger was a newcomer in politics. She was brought into politics in 2004 by Jörg Haider.
BZÖ’s leading candidate [...]

The boss of the Freedom Party in Styria is not happy about the Austrian police. He thinks the inhibition threshold to use firearms should be lower.
The reason of Kurzmann’s demand relates on an incident in the Grazer Stadtpark. One Asylum seeker from Algeria attacked a policeman and knocked him down. The policeman don’t wanted to [...]

What a monday morning for the bank clerks in the Vorarlberg town Feldkirch. At about 9:00am a German speaking man called the police and claimed he had placed explosive charges in four different banks in Feldkirch.
The banks were closed and police was searching for the explosive charges, but could not find anything. The search for [...]

Klagenfurt, the capital of the federal state Carinthia is becoming more and more popular. Already in September there are 10.000 overnight stays more as last year in 2005.
In contrast to its federal capital, the province of Carinthia is suffering under dropping overnight stays. The minus amounts between six and eight percent.
- Link: Klagenfurt

Yesterday evening a 54-year-old pensioner was swimming in the eleven degrees cold Lake Hallstätter See 150 meters from the shore.
The pensioner was travelling by his electrical boat from Bad Goisern to the direction of Hallstatt. In an unconscious moment of silence he fell into the lake. A 35-year-old businessman from Obertraun has seen the unintentional [...]

The consumption of fried chicken with rice in a school caused a massive large-scale operation for the rescue parties in Burgenlands capital Eisenstadt.
It’s supposed that salmonellae in the chicken put 150 pupils out of action. About 80 of them were so sick they had to lay down on the floor. The rescue teams of the [...]

Violence in the 4th class of the primary school in the Upper Austrian village Wartberg ob der Aist. A 47-year-old female teacher attacked a 10-year-old pupil with her feet.
The incident already happend on the second school day. The 10-year-old had a fight in the class room with one of his classmates. The teacher went between, [...]

The female polticans in Austria are upset and horrified about an interview of chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel in the daily newspaper “Kurier”.
According to the newspaper, chancellor Schüssel praises the high participation of women in the government with the words: “If I would be left-wing, the whole feminist troupe would be flattened infront of me”.
The reaction of [...]

Bad news again for the shoe industry in Carinthia. The shoe manufacturer Gabor in Spittal/Drau wants to cancel 170 jobs this year.
Already three years ago Gabor reduced its jobs from 950 to 650. The cancellation of 170 further jobs is the next blow for the workers in the shoe industry. Gabor has problems to survive [...]

The prince of the little principality Monaco came for a visit to Vienna. He was invited by Mohammed Elbaradai who is the general manager of the International Atom Energy Association (IAEA).
Prince Albert wants to know more about healing cancer with radio therapy and access to drinking water. He wants to discuss how far a cooperation [...]

The chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel of the ruling Peoples Party is not happy about the election campaign of his biggest rivals from the Socialdemocrats.
During an event in Klagenfurt Schüssel was complaining about “exceeding the border of the political style”, which can be seen in the “Napalm election campaign” of the Socialdemocrats. He believes the Socialdemocrats lie [...]

Bad times for the football in Austria. After the latest disgraceful matches of the national team, also disappointment and anger in the league matches.
Only a crowd of about 4.000 visitors came to yesterdays Upper Austrian football derby between the teams of FC Superfund Pasching and SV Ried. The football fans have seen a boring 0:0 [...]

Unhappy asylum seekers are living in the Tyrolean village Reith im Alpbachtal.
To show their dissatisfaction to the public, they blocked the main road in the village this morning. The police was able to break up the blockade quickly.
The asylum seekers from Russia wanted to avoid their removal to another accommodation with the protest. But as [...]

On yesterdays’s TV confrontation between Strache and Westenthaler, Freedom Party politican HC Strache said that Westenthaler is following Jörg Haider like a dog. Westenthaler was complaining about HC Strache that he would support a Socialdemocratic government. The confrontation was characterized by a lot of personal animosities and allegations.

Tonights TV confrontation between HC Strache (Freedom Party) and Peter Westenthaler (Future Austria) at 10:30pm live on the Austrian TV channel ORF 2 (or ORF2E on Astra 19.2°E 12692 H 22200 5/6) could be an amusing entertaiment.
It seems both really hate each other, so this should guarantee an emotional battle of words.
Yesterday the TV confrontation between Alfred [...]

The former BAWAG boss Helmut Elsner, who is involved in the Austrian bank scandal, was taken into safe keeping this week in France. The public prosecutor’s office expects an early extradition to Austria. Elsner wanted to avoid this with the declaration of health problems. But it seems he is not that suffering as he declared.
The [...]

For the first time the lawyer of Natascha Kampusch has confirmed that Natascha went on ski holiday with her kidnapper last February.
Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil went with his victim Natascha to the Lower Austrian skiing area Hochkar. The lawyer of Natascha Kampusch want to emphasize that there was absolutely no chance for an escape.
“We tried [...]

In August a survey showed that Austrian employees are not interested to work in its Eastern neighbour countries like Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland or Slovakia.
Only a fifth (22 percent) can imagine to go and work there, and this also only if the job would be more attractive than in Austria. Every second emloyee said [...]

Some people are not happy with the election campaign of the two politicans HC Strache (Freedom Party) and Peter Westenthaler (Future Austria).
Institutions like the “ARGE Migration Information Centre” from Linz, the “Migration Advisory Board” from Graz, Clio the club for history and education, Helping Hands and some other clubs bring a charge now against the [...]

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