Latest News Headlines Austria

Slovenia allows only refugees who are planning to travel to Austria or Germany. That the Minister of Internal Affairs Vesna Györkös Znidar Thursday declared.

Chancellor Merkel is due to the refugee crisis in eggs. Wednesday night she left for her biggest critics in the lion's den in Bavaria. That ruling party CSU refused to follow its course yet, as half of our Eastern neighbors and a third of its conservative faction.

Germany will probably longer with border control than hitherto intended. That left the German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere hinted in talks with German media.

- The Austrian government decided in 2016 not more than 37 500 asylum seekers to record. Up to 2019 will be allowed up to 127 500 people in total. That is what the government decided Wednesday in Vienna.

In an accident with a snowcat, a type of tractor which slopes make passable, his Sunday eleven people injured. One of them came under the pistenbully justified. He is freed by rescuers and taken by helicopter to a hospital in Salzburg.

Two people have been arrested because they have carried out DDoS attacks. Not for the thrill, not for political reasons, but because they wanted ransom. They demanded bitcoins to stop. The gang is known DD4BC, or DDoS for Bitcoin.

The man Thursday as jihadist stormed a police station in Paris and was shot had applied since 2011 in a number of European countries under different names asylum. The German media reported Monday.

The discovery of a corpse and two bags with body parts in the idyllic Lake Traun Monday put the police of Austria with a mystery. After the discovery of the bags with body parts found on Monday divers also the corpse of a man, police said.

Denmark is introducing temporary border controls. The country has the European Commission Monday announced again to set controls, said a spokesman for the EU executive. The northern European country does this in connection with the flood of refugees.

A Dutch and an Australian skier have on New Year's Day a Russian girl saved from serious injury when she fell from a chairlift in Kaprun in Austria.

Winter Athletes Saturday direction from Austria to Netherlands, get on to the A1 at the border with Salzburg after about an hour late. Reported that the ANWB. It takes longer to cross the border with Germany stabbing because the Austrians in relation to the flow of refugees from Eastern Europe again conducting border checks.

Also at the end of the year, every day still thousands of refugees from the Balkan route to Austria and Germany. Just on Tuesday had until midday counted in Slovenia 2000 new migrants, said Secretary of the Interior Bostjan Sefic in Ljubljana.

Austria also sets a limit on the number of asylum seekers it can absorb. More than 100,000 this year expects the Alpine can not, said Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner.

About 1.8 million Dutch go this year during the Christmas break away. That number is the same as last year, reports Dutch Board of Tourism and Conventions (NBTC) Tuesday.

Austria is building a fence on a portion of the border with Slovenia, but it is not waterproof in any case. The 3.7 kilometer long barrier namely has a hole of 800 meters, because some landowners do not want there to be put down on their land something.

The mystery seems to be solved around the notes floating in the Danube in Austria. A demented elderly man between the eighties and nineties turns the 130,000 euro have thrown in an arm of the river.

The Austrian police are trying to find out how more than 100,000 euros has entered the Danube. The floating notes of 100 and 500 euros were last weekend in an arm of the river.

Justice in Belgium is looking for two new suspects involved in the attacks in Paris, whose identity has not been established yet. Justice announced on Friday that the two along with the fugitive terror suspect Salah Abdeslam traveled twice in a rental car to the Hungarian capital Budapest. The vehicle was checked at the border between Austria and Hungary.

Possibly there will be a temporary end to the passport-free travel within the zone of the 26 Schengen countries. The EU Ministers of Interior and Justice Friday to discuss these and other measures that countries can take in fighting the influx of refugees. EU president Luxembourg has the options set put in a discussion paper.

A dog that had run away in Germany at a holiday celebrating family from Austria, has reunited after five years with his owners. This happened thanks to an observant woman Charly mother soul only saw scurry the streets in the Bavarian Aschbach.

The police Wednesday during an international operation broken up a network of smugglers of refugees. A total of 23 suspects, mainly Syrians and Greeks, were arrested. The coordination of the smuggling was owned by an Albanian. That Europol announced in The Hague.

The German Government sees nothing in the plan of the Netherlands for a mini Schengen zone. "Our approach is different. We have to try with those countries in the Schengen area to get done," said a source from the German government Friday.

Three months after the drama with 71 stitched refugees in a truck on the Hungarian- Austrian border, the researchers in Austria have completed their work. According to the police bodies 69 have been identified.

A riding school in Austria has an eight year old boy run over his grandfather with a tractor, allowing the 71- year-old man was killed.

The checks that Germany due to the influx of refugees in September introduced temporarily in Bavaria along the border with Austria has produced a nice catch. Thus, 183 people were arrested against whom ran an arrest warrant.

The fugitive terror suspect Salah Abdel 's been about two months ago in Germany and Austria. He passed with two others in a car on September 9 at the German Passau the border with Austria.

Russia claims to have foiled a terrorist attack on the eve of the Winter Games in Sochi last year. Several women would have to smuggle explosives aboard a plane, hidden in cans of hand cream. In Austria and France were then arrested several suspects.

The Serbian newspaper Blic reported Sunday that one of the bombers in Paris the 25-year-old Ahmed is Almuhamed. This man was traveling on a Syrian refugee until October 7 from Macedonia to Serbia.

Austria is building a fence along the border with Slovenia to direct the flow of refugees in the right direction. Austrian media reports said. The fence at the border crossing at Spielfeld is 3.7 kilometers long and should be ready by the end of the year.

The Austrian police have broken up a human trafficking gang that between February and mid-September, an estimated 1800 migrants via Serbia and Hungary has brought to Vienna. The gang would have expected from Belgrade are guided and per person between 250 and 300 euros for the illegal trip.