Thousands marched through central Vienna on Thursday evening to urge the country's political parties not to join a coalition with the far-right FPÖ after the Freedom Party, led by its controversial leader Hebert Kickl won with 29% of the vote last Sunday

A group of Jewish students on Friday prevented the first speaker of Austria's far-right parliament from laying a wreath at the Holocaust memorial, accusing him of 'spitting in the face of our ancestors'

Austria's largest construction group, STRABAG SE, has been fined 2,79 million euros due to cartel allegations; the German Federal Cartel Office has target its subsidiary based in Cologne for illegal bidding with the renovation of the Zoobrücke bridge

Austria is one of the EU countries with strictest rules for foreigners wishing to obtain citizenship; more than 750.000 people who have been legally resident in the territory for more than ten years still do not hold an Austrian passport

Innio Group reported that it commissioned a 1 MW hydrogen cogeneration plant in Austria at the beginning of the heating season