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

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 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