A highly publicised trial of 24 people accused of stealing millions of euros of beers while working at a brewery in Graz started; the prosecutors claim the criminal organisation operated since January 2009 and was uncovered in 2017

6 new hotels in Austria joined the international collection of independent quality hotels Quality Lodgings, marking its largest-ever single-country expansion and bringing the collection to 134 hotels across eight European countries

Over 70.000 visitors have been counted at the Eurovision village according to Vienna City Marketing, while around 5.000 staged a street protest ahead of the grand finale amid a geopolitical storm with five countries boycotting over Israel’s participation

To mark World Heritage Day, Vienna's Natural History Museum and the Hallstatt region organized “Unveiling Hidden World Heritage”; the event showcased finds that are normally hidden from view: from Alpine pile dwellings to latest discoveries in salt mines

Austria’s coalition government has agreed to introduce a social media ban for children under 14, after days of negotiations over how the measure would work