The EU countries do not agree whether the talks with Turkey about accession to the EU should be broken down. This was shown Thursday at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.
Two mountain climbers were killed in the Italian Alps near the Madonna di Campiglio ski resort on Sunday. Another six mountain athletes became heavily wounded.
The village of Bondo in Switzerland has again faced a mud flow. Earlier this week, eight people from Switzerland, Germany and Austria were missing.
Rescuers are in a remote valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden looking for eight people who have disappeared after a landslide. According to the authorities, there are people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
UPDATE 18.45- A train from Hungary to the Netherlands has been quiet in Austria since last night. An overhead line has been crushed by emergency weather. There are about 900 train passengers. It would mainly be for Dutch passengers returning from the Hungarian music festival Sziget in Budapest.
In Austria, on Friday night, two people were killed by a collapsing party tent.
A 2 year old boy died in Austria because he had been left in a silly car for hours. The 17-year-old mother and her friend had left the dreams in the car because the child was sleeping well after a long drive. The two went in and fell asleep.
The scandal with infected eggs has also reached Austria. According to the supervisor, two wholesalers have sold hundreds of kilos of Dutch-derived eggs throughout the country. The products are retrieved from precaution.
A 44-year-old man who runs in Austria with a Heil Hitler license plate, risks a cell sentence of up to 10 years.
The Grossarltal in Austria is available for all traffic on Monday. Last weekend, the region was closed virtually by the outside world due to abundant rainfall and the many foreign tourists could not get it.
The Grossarltal in Austria, popular with tourists, was closed on Sunday by abundant rainfall from the outside world. According to the police, the road to Sankt Johann im Pongau is blocked by severe water pollution and mudslides. They even drove cars. The cleanup operations are in full swing, but the bad weather in the region is not over yet.
The second 'black saturday' is coming. Especially in France, Germany and Italy, it is busy on the roads, the ANWB predicts.
German treasure hunter Hans Glueck (76) claims to have found a nazi tax worth 560 million in a forest in Bavaria. There is only one problem: the owner of the forest does not give Glueck permission to dig. According to the elderly treasure hunter because the man wants to keep everything for himself.
A heavy car driver who fell asleep in Austria on the wrong road, says a police officer. According to Austrian media Thursday, the man had used so much alcohol that he could not keep his eyes open and fall asleep while driving through the village of Gurnitz.
Bird protection Flanders 'hangs the red flag' because of the usutu virus. The organization suspects that there is a new outbreak of the virus that mainly kills blackbirds. It is transmitted by mosquitoes and is in principle not dangerous to humans.
Slovakia does not get the same quality fish sticks as other European countries and this discrimination must come to an end soon. This said the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico shortly before a regional summit on Wednesday with the leaders of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Holidaymakers in the Alps have had Sundays for a few hours from a closed Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy. As of 06:30, some explosives from the Second World War were made harmless in the area.
Holidaymakers in the Alps must note that the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy has been closed for a few hours. As of 06:30, some explosives from the Second World War will be harmless in the area.
Nearly one hundred thousand migrants worldwide have returned voluntarily to their country of origin via a special UN program last year. More than half of them left home from Germany, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday. The migrants received help from the United Nations on their return journey.
After the heavy riots around the G20 summit in Hamburg, German politicians want to chart left-wing extremists across Europe. Leaders of the ruling parties have ruled according to the Rheinische Post (RP) for the special storage of leftist extremists data, as happens to right extremists.
The German justice arrested fourteen people in the case around the child porn platform Elysium. Twelve of them are suspected of sexual abuse with children, the German public prosecutor reported on Friday at a press conference. One of the suspects, a 28-year-old man from Austria, would have offered his own children on the forum.
A 54-year-old Tunisian who killed an elderly couple last year in their home in Linz, according to the Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka, suspected of being out of Islamist motives.
A large forum for child porn on the dark web, the hidden part of the internet, has been dismantled. The site had 87,000 members around the world. The forum was used not only for sharing photos but also for making arrangements to abuse children sexually.
A court in the Swiss Basel sentenced a 44-year-old collector to a prison sentence on Wednesday because he had robbed feathers of prey birds in museums in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The man received three years imprisonment, two of which were conditional.
A dispute between Austria and Italy about possible checks at their common border is based on a 'misunderstanding.' This said the Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern Wednesday, assuring Rome that his army has not used any tanks at a major border crossing.
Italy called on Austria the ambassador to Austria on Tuesday. The step follows the announcement by Austria of border controls between the two countries, according to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The British decision to leave the European Union may be reversed if it lies with EU president Donald Tusk. 'The EU was built on dreams that seemed impossible to fulfill. So, who knows? You could say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. '
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that new US sanctions against Russia are putting pressure on relations between the countries. 'I think this is harmful,' said Russian leader according to state press office RIA Novosti.
A 45-year-old Swiss collector has done damage to millions of euros in museums in Switzerland, Germany and Austria by stealing feathers of prepared birds of prey. He has now been arrested and charged for theft.
The European Court of Auditors examines the financial support that Turkey has received from the EU as a candidate country. Turkey received almost 2.2 billion euros in pre-accession support in 2007-2013, with a view of another 4.3 billion. The money is intended to support reforms needed for accession.
