Austria tiring of being ‘ashtray of Europe’
AFP news.austria@thelocal.com @thelocalaustria 12 October 2018 Guests puff on cigarettes in a Vienna bar. Photo: AFP Austria is tiring of its reputation as “the ashtray of Europe” — at least … Continue reading
TWELFTH NIGHT now available on Kindle and in paperback. Being a journal of my travels to the florid & lurid fleshpots of Vienna, Brussels & Germany January to December 2014
I need to put myself in to a mood of sickly morbid eroticism again! Of despair! Desperate sexual hunger that comes with black psychological despair and morbid sickly eroticism. The … Continue reading
Sebastian Kurz: could 31-year-old’s audacious bid to lead Austria pay off?
Critics of Kurz, who topped polls in run-up to Sunday’s election, argue his campaign embraced divisive agenda set by populist right Sebastian Kurz and his partner, Susanne Thier, leave a … Continue reading
Austria set to elect youngest EU leader in move to the right
Sebastian Kurz has campaigned on a platform of being tough on migrants and easy on taxes Veiled woman passes an election poster of Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz, leader and … Continue reading
Austrian populists expect to be kingmakers as politics takes turn to right
Freedom party dictates tone of Sunday’s election, as Social Democrats tainted by ‘dirty tricks’ strategy Heinz-Christian Strache, left, head of the Freedom party, presenter Claudia Reiterer and incumbent chancellor Christian … Continue reading
Oh Vienna: world heritage status threatened by high-rise
City’s beautiful Baroque centre now on Unesco’s at-risk list over plans to build 66-metre high tower near the Stadtpark A horse-drawn carriage drives by the Hofburg palace in Vienna, part … Continue reading
Austrian chancellor expects snap election this year
Christian Kern says poll likely due to fracturing coalition, raising prospect of far-right Freedom party entering government Christian Kern said he did not believe carrying on with a minority government … Continue reading
‘Lost’ Austrian film predicting rise of nazism restored and relaunched
City Without Jews premiered in Vienna in 1924. Now the original version, lost for 90 years, has been saved from decay A still from the film City without Jews, which … Continue reading
Taxi drivers who transported refugees ‘not people smugglers’
Published: 07 Oct 2016 Thelocal.at Taxi drivers and members of the public who picked up refugees who had made it across the Austrian border last summer and drove them to … Continue reading
Vienna’s benefits system acts as a ‘magnet for refugees’
Published: 07 Oct 2016 Thelocal.at Refugees in Austria are increasingly moving to Vienna because other Austrian states have reduced the amount of social security benefits asylum seekers can receive, which … Continue reading
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