A mountain climber got killed by an avalanche in Austria carinthia. Another could just put himself in safety on time, the local police reported. Both 31-year-old men from South Tyrol were busy climbing the Grossglockner when they were surprised by the avalanche.
Minister Bert Koenders of Foreign Affairs welcomes the idea of sending a EU mission to southern Libya. 'With a big' but ', he said Monday in Brussels. 'It depends on how it is shaped.'
Streaming Platform DAZN is about to buy broadcast rights from the Champions League. It is a deal for Germany. DAZN wants to broadcast the games online only, not on a regular television channel. That would be a first for the Champions League.
The population of Switzerland is behind the government's plans to invest billions in renewable energy and a ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants. That is the outcome of Sunday's binding referendum in the country. According to preliminary figures, 58.2 percent voted for the plans.
When it comes to the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, parliamentary elections will be held shortly. Kurz talks with Chancellor Christian Kern and President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday.
Over 63,000 minors without guidance from a parent or other minor have applied for asylum in the European Union last year. That's a third less than in 2015, according to figures published by Eurostat Eurostat on Thursday.
A Syrian asylum seeker was sentenced to life imprisonment in Austria for assassination of twenty injured and defenseless soldiers from the army of President Bashar al-Assad. The 27-year-old man was ex-warrior of an anti-Assam militant from the city of Homs.
Against four members of an International gang of smugglers, a life sentence was imprisoned on Thursday for a Hungarian court. Seven other people involved in the smuggling heard lower sentences against themselves.
Poland arrested an Austrian suspected of war crimes in eastern Ukraine. The 25-year-old man would have committed crimes when he fought against the Ukrainian army against pro-Russian separatists.
Detainees convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague can now also be punished in Sweden. The court and the Swedish government have made agreements about it, announced the ICC on Wednesday.
The 28 Member States of the European Union gave 710,400 people a protected status last year, a big doubling over 2015. The Netherlands provided nearly 22,000 people with asylum or protection, an increase of 28 percent.
Turkey can not become a member of the European Union if the country makes the constitutional amendments approved in a referendum. EU leaders must officially suspend accession negotiations once the new constitution, which gives President Erdogan much more power, will come into force.
An American Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) collapsed on Sunday in eastern Ukraine when the patrol vehicle in which he was on a landmine drove.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern (SPÖ) wants refugees to be taken in camps outside the EU. Core is thinking about camps in countries such as Libya, Senegal, Mali and Afghanistan.
A 68-year-old diver from Austria by a shark killed in South Africa. He disappeared in the water near the coast of Durban. According to authorities, he was slain by a shark.
Austria will soon surely join the compulsory EU program to include asylum seekers from Greece and Italy. It is mainly about refugees from Syria. Member States in 2015 were a major redistribution program match, which Austria because of the large numbers of migrants that had taken until a month ago was released.
In Lake Constance, which borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland, have divers in inaccessible caves discovered a new species.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the controversial toll for passenger cars against criticism from its European neighbors. Her government takes toll ' no discrimination against foreign drivers, '' she said Monday in Berlin. Germany does the same as Austria. That costs too can make about 9 euros to ten days of use highways.
Crown Princess Margareta of Romania and her husband Prince Radu on Thursday received Britain's Prince Charles. The British heir to the throne, bringing an official visit to Romania, the couple met at the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest.
Austria wants the European program for the mutual redistribution of refugees off. Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Tuesday that he will see how the country can get out of the agreements.
Turks outside Turkey can from Monday to vote in a referendum on the power of the president. The voters in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland can go to the polls. In the Netherlands there is from 5 to April 9 opportunity to vote.
Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern has Monday said that he intends Turkish ministers who wish to campaign to ban in favor of the referendum. He joins well with the measure which the Netherlands took to ensure that ministers were making propaganda for the plan to expand the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through a plebiscite.
Following Germany and the Netherlands are also canceled in Austria meetings with Turkish politicians. Performances by politicians in Linz, Herzogenburg Hörbranz and do not go through while in Wiener Neustadt the town looking for a way to stabbing a stick for a meeting Sunday.
The German upper house, the Bundesrat, is Friday again railed against tolplan of the Minister of Transport, Alexander Dobrindt. Dobrindt wants foreigners to charge for the use of motorways. The Federal Council demands that there be exceptions in border regions.
Switzerland has no problem with the arrival of Mevlüt Cavusoglu is to make propaganda for the referendum in April. The Turkish Foreign Minister will speak Sunday in Zurich voting compatriots.
A ban on campaign activities by Turkish politicians in the European Union is not likely. Austria argues that, but several EU Foreign Ministers believe that a matter for the Member States themselves, appeared Monday before talks in Brussels.
Germany was in 2015 close to the closure of the borders. The German government had far-reaching plans for border with Austria to keep out refugees. Reported Welt am Sonntag. The newspaper relies on a journalistic book that will be published soon on the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Because of the strong, warm wind that swept over the Alps at the weekend the chance of avalanches is high. Before alerting the weather services of Austria and Switzerland Sunday. The avalanche danger is especially present above the 2000 meter mark.
A fourteen-year-old German boy on Saturday his father and mother reported to the police. He was tired of drug use from his parents.
With 98.7 percent of votes, Heinz-Christian Strache Saturday re-elected as leader of the right-wing populist Freedom Party in Austria. The vote took place at the party convention with nearly seven hundred members in Klagenfurt.
