Austria

From 6 February the authorities will only carry out so-called 'mobile border controls' towards Slovakia, replacing the previous controls, according to the Austrian Interior Ministry

Austria, with Hungary, decided not to send weapons to Ukraine to avoid further escalation, said Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner and her Hungarian counterpart Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky

The government wants to reduce the burden of high electricity prices for households by covering 80% of grid tariffs, while the authorities are trying to counter inflated prices from utility companies by investing an additional €200 million

The conservatives, eager to win the upcoming local elections in the state of Lower Austria, want to further crack down on climate activists with harsher penalties, although legal experts consider such a move problematic

The country has installed more than 1.000 MW of solar power and has now reached over 4,2 GW of cumulative installed PV capacity

The 10 skiers buried by an avalanche were rescued after the last two missing, injured but alive, were pulled out of the snow

The government's new circular economy strategy, focusing on higher recycling rates in 2030, is expected to significantly reduce resource use in Austria by 2050

A strike by employees of Austria's main national railway operator paralysed almost all rail traffic in the country on Monday; workers are demanding an average wage increase of 12 per cent against 11 per cent inflation in Austria

Around 5.000 people, mostly men from Syria and Afghanistan, are at risk of having to sleep on the streets as the country is in negotiations with Federal Minister of Interior over who is responsible for their accommodation

Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler criticised activists who glued themselves to a dinosaur skeleton at Vienna's Natural History Museum to demand an end to the fossil road in Austria and a speed limit

Restoration work has begun in the library of the Benedictine Abbey of Melk; overlooking the Danube River, the UNESCO heritage site contains a hundred thousand historical volumes some older than a millennium

Reichard Wilhelm, a mummified 17th century baby from the crypt of an Austrian aristocratic family, has been identified thanks to CT scans, family records, radiocarbon tests and other burial clues as Frontiers of Medicine explains

The Interior Minister and Greece’s Migration Minister declared that the two countries will tighten cooperation in order to fight the international smuggling mafia and protect the EU external borders