Power problems through snow chaos Austria
salzburg January 10, 2019 17:00The snow chaos in Austria has led to major problems with the power supply in many places. Thousands of households in the worst hit areas were without electricity on Thursday.
The snow chaos in Austria has led to major problems with the power supply in many places. Thousands of households in the worst hit areas were without electricity on Thursday.
The avalanche risk in Salzburg was raised to level 5 on Wednesday. This is the highest level and is rare. According to the authorities, there is 'very great danger.' For large parts of the...
Rescue workers rescued eleven tourists from a completely snowed in 'Almhütte' in the mountains south of Salzburg. That is a remote wooden habitable mountain hut that is also rented out. The…
In several Austrian regions, an alarm was issued Thursday for avalanche danger. In particular in the federal states of Styria and Salzburg, experts described the situation as exciting. Many fresh...
The planning of the Christmas season is no sinecure. Especially if you have to take into account a family, a parental plan and the wishes of exes. Journalist and divorced mother Daphne...
The EU needs more time to reach an agreement on the Brexit with the United Kingdom. 'In the coming weeks, we will take a calm and serious time to achieve the decisive progress we need in the negotiations,' said EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier on arrival in Luxembourg. There he talks to the EU ministers about the developments in the approaching separation of the British.
With the decision of the British government to leave the European Union, London has cost around € 560 million per week since then. This is stated in a study published on Sunday by the Center for European Reform. The center assumes, among other things, that the British economy is now 2.5 percent smaller in size than if a majority of voters voted for EU membership in 2016.
The British opposition party Labor has emphasized that it will vote against any arrangement on the brexit that does not meet all the requirements of the party. A Labor spokesman said this Monday at the Labor Congress in Liverpool, while British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to save her Brexit plan.
EU President Donald Tusk remains convinced that an agreement with the United Kingdom on brexit is possible, although the British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke of a stalemate on Friday. But it is up to the United Kingdom to come up with better proposals on the Irish border issue and future trade relations between the EU and the United Kingdom, according to Tusk Friday in a statement.
Premier May has threatened with harsh words not to make an agreement with the European Union about a Brexit. She demands a new proposal from Brussels, which is not flexible and would show too little respect for the British referendum result to leave the EU.
Despite beautiful words from both sides, a Brexit compromise is far away. The EU summit in October and an extra summit in November will be crucial to prevent a strong Brexit.
The EU should focus on strengthening the external borders of the union and cooperation with countries outside the EU in order to keep the migration within bounds. That said EU President Donald Tusk after an EU summit in Salzburg. 'The migration debate shows that we do not agree on everything but on the goal: to curb illegal immigration. We have decided to focus on what unites us and has already produced results. '
The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg should also keep the same time zone in the future. The prime ministers Mark Rutte, Charles Michel and Xavier Bettel agree in principle on this, after a short consultation of the three in the margins of an EU summit in Salzburg. They want to gauge the residents' preferences for the introduction of summer or winter time as standard time.
There is no shot in the negotiations about the brexit and the border between the (British) Northern Ireland and Ireland. That is what the Heads of Government of Lithuania and Slovakia say after dinner between the European heads of government on the eve of the EU summit in Salzburg.
No matter how hard it is, a common European approach to illegal migration only seems to get further away. First, the political games must be stopped, President Donald Tusk says.
The EU leaders are on Wednesday and Thursday in Salzburg for a migration summit. Host is Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who wants to speed up the migration issue as a temporary EU president.
EU President Donald Tusk wants a special brexit summit in Brussels in November. He writes this to the EU leaders who are meeting this week in Salzburg, Austria. Tusk warns of a 'disaster' if the United Kingdom leaves the EU next year without agreements about the divorce and the future relationship.
In case of an accident at the main station in Salzburg, dozens of people were injured according to local media. Two trains, a locomotive and a night train were crashed at around 5 am.
A wish list for Christmas was flown to Austria from the Alps to Italy over a distance of about 400 kilometers. The epistle with the gift man of 2-year-old Emma- 'a sled'- landed in the grass between two basins of a water purification plant in Schio, near Vicenza.
The infamous Austrian incarcer Josef Fritzl, who had locked his daughter for decades in a secret cellar under his house and raised seven children with her, could possibly have another secret shelter. That says the current tenant of the building against Austrian media.
TUI travel organization is working closely with price fighter easyJet. The number of holiday destinations in Europe will be expanded in the coming winter. 'A summer test with five city trips has been completed,' said TUI.
Five people died in the Austrian Krimml on a Sunday afternoon in a walk over a glacier. Presumably, the cord with which they were secured was cut off. A sixth person was severely injured and brought to Salzburg in Salzburg, reports the Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten.
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 second 'black saturday' is coming. Especially in France, Germany and Italy, it is busy on the roads, the ANWB predicts.
A motorist has come Sunday in Austria killed when her car on a curve collided with an oncoming vehicle. At the time of the accident was particularly slippery by the police in Aigen-Schlägl.
In Austria, the risk of avalanches so great that the country speaks of 'tricky' situation in the mountains. This weekend there is a meter snow. Länder Vorarlberg and Tyrol have raised the avalanche risk to level 4. That level comes just a few days a year. Definitely above 2000 meters is the danger of large avalanches that come down into the valley extremely high. In the lower areas, the risk of avalanches sharply. The risk of avalanches is so great because there are a lot of new snow on an old and inadequate snow cover has fallen. Off-piste skiing is also severely discouraged.
Austrian police think the arrest of a 25-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker to have prevented an attack.
In a lake in southern Germany is a yellow anaconda found. The python was two weeks ago for the first time. Two snake experts saw the animal Saturday. The snake is found and transferred to a reptile shelter.
A 41-year-old Austrian was killed when he went surfing on a rope accelerated in the Alps. The man drowned after he fell and his head snapped on the stones.
Austria provides two suspected IS terrorists in France on suspicion of involvement in the attacks in November in Paris.