Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to exploit disagreement within a deeply divided EU over a Kremlin-backed gas pipeline as he looks to seal Vienna's support for the project during a visit to Austria next week.
A Viennese organisation which assists refugees to find work and shelter has registered a dramatic rise in the number of homeless asylum seekers in recent weeks.
How long is too long to wait for your asylum claim to be processed? With Friday being World Refugee Day, The Local looks into the plight of one man who has been waiting for 18 years.
Austria has increased the number of asylum seekers it granted refugee status to. Last year, 4,345 people were granted refugee status, up from 3,925 in 2012.
The former Freedom Party politician Ewald Stadler was found guilty Wednesday of attempted blackmail of Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Heinz-Christian Strache over photos showing the latter consorting with a group of German Neo-Nazis in the so-called "Paintball Affair".
The Austrian operations of Media Saturn, one of Germany's largest chains of electronics stores, has been fined €1.23 million for price-fixing, it was reported today in Heise Online.
Austria remains, according to recent statistics from Eurostat, the second richest country in the European Union. Austria’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was around one third higher than the EU average in 2013.
The trial of a man accused of the death of a 51-year-old dance teacher, Ingrid S., began Wednesday in the criminal court in Wels, in Lower Austria, according to a report in the Kurier newspaper.
Foreign and Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz has spoken out against plans to found a Turkish Islamic high school in Vienna-Simmering. He said the idea “is completely the wrong approach”.
A former policeman from the elite Viennese police special forces unit WEGA (Wiener Einsatzgruppe Alarmabteilung) appeared in court Tuesday to answer charges of carrying out an armed robbery, reportedly intending to finance a charitable aid project in Africa. He and his younger female accomplice were each sentenced to eight years in prison.
Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz's homepage has been attacked by Turkish hackers after he warned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be sensitive on his visit to Austria.
Ex-FPÖ politician Ewald Stadler is facing his former colleague, Freedom Party leader Heinz Christian Strache in court this week, in connection with the so-called "Paintball Affair".
A Muslim cleric who was arrested on terrorism charges in Graz earlier this month denies the charges against him and said he would never encourage people to go to war, according to an interview with Profil.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner has called on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take a "sensitive approach" during his visit to Vienna on Thursday and Friday this week.
The leader of the right-wing FPÖ party, Heinz-Christian Strache has said that he hopes a new, right-wing faction in the European Parliament will be formed no later than June 24th.
The gentleman's game of cricket, re-introduced to Austria 40 years ago, is experiencing something of a renaissance. The Local Austria looks into the action, while wondering how to translate 'googly' into German.
A 35-year-old lawyer from Vienna currently working in Germany is strongly suspected of having shot his 42-year-old ex-wife in Geneva on Saturday night according to a report in Kronen Zeitung.
If new national elections were to take place today, then HC Strache's opposition right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) would be in first place, according to two new poll results.
A member of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP party in Turkey demanded that Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz apologise for comments he made on the weekend.
Austria's first openly gay politician, leader of the Austrian Greens' delegation to the EU parliament Ulrike Lunacek was the apparent victim of an attack at Friday's annual Rainbow Parade in Vienna.
