Europe Austria The far-right Freedom Party is doing very well and is favourite for the elections on Sunday 29: according to the polls, it is the leading party with 27% of the vote after a crisis in popularity since 2019 due to major scandals involving its president
Europe Austria Wien Energie, Vienna's state-owned heat and gas supplier, will avoid buying Russian gas and ensure that it is not sold to its customers from 2025 onwards
Europe Austria Austrian agriculture is struggling with the effects of the severe drought of recent weeks and months: damage to agriculture caused by the drought is estimated at €150 million
Europe Austria With less than a month to go before legislative elections of September 29, Austria's far-right Freedom Party has highlighted its priorities in its manifesto, ranging from proposals to sharply reduce immigration to strengthening the economy
Europe Austria Austrian Leonhard Baumgartner was named winner of Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 in Bodø, Norway
Europe Austria The Austrian company that is offering part-time PhDs from an online business school in Malta for up to €32.000 has been declared 'not legal' by the Austrian authorities
Europe Austria The Teletest working group, which measures TV and video usage in Austria, will upgrade its system with HbbTV-based data collection as of 1 September 2024
Europe Austria Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron presented Kornmarktplatz, arched structure that extends behind a neo-Baroque façade in Bregenz and contains a flat and a hotel on a site previously occupied by a 17th century building collapsed after its roof took fire
Europe Austria In 2023 Austria saw a significant increase in its foreign population: one in four people has a migration background, as indicated by Statistics Austria
Europe Austria A new law enacted allows the government to confiscate and sell the vehicles of drivers who exceed the speed limit by a considerable margin, 60 kilometres per hour or more, even for a single offence
Europe Austria Approximately €17,9 million in grants will be made available for 'medium-sized' distributed energy storage projects; projects can be new or expansions of existing systems to meet size specifications
Europe Austria According to experts, Austria could be largely ice-free within 45 years due to the rapid retreat of the country's glaciers, which accelerated last year
Europe Austria Eligible Netflix clients who had a subscription in Austria in 2019 and 2020 have a claim to a one-off refund of up to €30 due to a settlement following a class action taken by the Arbeiterkammer; the refund relates to the increases in subscription fees