Officials and teachers may no longer wear a headscarf if they are in office. That is the essence of a law that is going to submit the Austrian Minister for Integration Kurz in parliament. Kurz (ÖVP), the law prepared jointly with the State Secretary Muna Duzdar (SPÖ). Duzdar himself an Arab background and Muslim.
Austria wants with other neighboring countries of Germany forge an alliance against the German tolplan. The Austrian Transport Minister Jörg Leichtfried wants talks in Brussels beginning of the new year in order to impose a common plan against the toll for passenger cars.
With fifty arrests, the Austrian police in their own words, after years of research almost completely rolled up a big drug ring. The mainly Nigerians existing gang smuggled at least from 2012, large quantities of cocaine and heroin to the Austrian capital, especially from the Netherlands, where drug smugglers swallow into balls.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has been the target of a cyber attack. Which was discovered in November. ' The systems are now secure. We got new security and passwords, '' a spokeswoman said Wednesday. It is not known whether the attack was successful.
The Austrian parliament on Thursday approved the proposal by the Government to expropriate of Adolf Hitler's birth house. The building in the town of Braunau am Inn on the border with Germany is owned by a woman who refused to sell.
Around 6.4 million Austrians Sunday to elect the new president. The choice of a left-wing candidate, ex-leader of the Greens, Alexander Van der Bellen, and a right-wing populist, Norbert Hofer of the FPÖ.
In a house in the Austrian Böheimkirchen found six dead, including three children. That informed the police Thursday. According to Austrian media likely to be a family drama.
The Vienna City Administration's explanation give streets and squares are named after people with a loaded past. There will hang signs with additional information about their background. It is the intention to make visible the history of the Austrian capital in place of that to cover up.
A legendary photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt has raised at an auction in Vienna 48,000 euros. The German-American photographer shot the record of his life in 1945 after the war, during the celebration of 'V-Day' in Times Square. He explained aptly define how a sailor and a nurse bends back her passionately coast.
In two houses in the Austrian capital Vienna has discovered the police together ninety elephant tusks. It involves one of the greatest finds of ivory in the EU.
Cleaners at the Vienna airport on Thursday in a trash discovered a newborn baby. The baby was taken to hospital but died a lack of oxygen for too long.
The birthplace of Adolf Hitler in Braunau am Inn falls prey to demolition. Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka will find that most an explanatory sign may come in the new building, nothing more.
The independent Hungarian newspaper Nepszabadsag not appear. The already printed Saturday edition was still scattered, but the publisher said that the newspaper to the development of a 'new concept' is not true, on paper or online.
About a hundred astronauts from 35 countries are meeting in Vienna to discuss a week on their unique profession. The agenda contains one topic: the future of human spaceflight.
In the parliament of the northern Swiss canton of St. Gallen has criticized the shortest scheduled flight in the world. It is scheduled that will soon airport of St Gallen Altenrhein connects Friedrichshafen, Germany. A flight of less than twenty kilometers to the other side of Lake Constance.
"Problems with voting by mail also threaten Austria's second attempt to traverse to choose a new president this year. The government in Vienna is considering to postpone the presidential elections of October 2 because the quality of the condition of ballot papers for postal voting."
Austrian archaeologists can no longer dig in the ancient Turkish city of Ephesus. The Turkish government, the investigation ended prematurely because of,, continuing political tensions with Austria ', the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported.
Australia, Austria and Canada have the most livable cities in the world. The Australian city of Melbourne has the best performance in terms of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. The Austrian capital Vienna is right behind there, like the Canadian cities of Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary.
Vienna's zoo is suddenly two panda boy richer. Although employees last week welcomed a small giant, the other was young when completely overlooked.
The Austrian Natascha Kampusch experiencing ten years after her escape from years of captivity much rejection in public.,, There are places where people talk poorly about me, 'the now 28-year-old said in an interview with the German news agency DPA.
Austria threatens uncooperative in extending the negotiations on Turkey's accession to the EU. Minister Sebastian Kurz (Foreign Affairs) hinted in an interview with the newspaper Kurier that he is prepared to use its veto.
A nineteen-year-old Roman woman is Monday, on the way to the World Youth Days, died of meningitis in a hospital in Vienna. Which reported the Italian media.
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has summoned the Turkish ambassador to explain what Ankara has to do with the demonstrations Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Austria.
In a confrontation between left and right demonstrators in Vienna Saturday thirteen people injured. Including four officers. Seven people were arrested.
Satellite images suggest that North Korea again produces plutonium, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in Vienna Monday. Production takes place at the Yongbyon nuclear research complex, where dangerous plutonium is extracted from spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor.
Refugees who come to Europe must be collected for Australian model on an island in the Mediterranean. This is suggested by the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in an interview with the newspaper.
Anxiously awaits Austria who the new head of state. The two remaining candidates went up late last night head-to-head. Today 720,000 letter voters are counted. Therefore, it remains unclear whether the far-right EU critic Norbert Hofer (45) is President in the Hofburg.
Austrian voters go Sunday for the second and decisive round of polling to determine who will be president. The choice is between Norbert Hofer of the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria and Alexander van der Bellen of the Greens.
by Austria, Mozart's lovely mountains and Empress Sisi, tomorrow can get an ultra-right president. Norbert Hofer wants to close the borders, refugees, soldiers deter and limit interference from Brussels. The FPÖ candidate openly infatuated with Nazi symbols and aims to become a true tribune.
Christian Kern Tuesday in Vienna sworn in as Chancellor of Austria. The fifty-Social Democrat SPÖ is the thirteenth postwar chancellor of the Alpine Republic. He succeeds Werner Faymann who unexpectedly resigned his post on 9 May.
