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Austrian SozialMarie award goes to Slovak project Dom.ov aiding Romani families with building housing
28.5.2020 9:29 full story
Austria: Wiener Symphoniker names Dalibor Karvay its new first concertmaster
23.11.2019 15:23 full story
Austria, Germany on track to employ half of the refugees who arrived during the migration crisis four years ago
12.8.2019 13:14 full story
Disgraced Austrian leader who backed Czech MP was a neo-Nazi for years, according to new evidence
10.6.2019 13:51 full story
Austrian Parliament expands ban on extremist symbols to include Islamist emblems, domestic ultra-right symbols not banned
17.12.2018 8:42 full story
Germany is coping - three years after the immigration wave, 25 % of refugees have jobs
12.6.2018 7:35 The subject of immigration to Germany has been a "hit" in the Czech media for a couple of years now, mostly in a negative context. The most recent news from there to catch the Czech media's interest was a scandal around the awarding of asylum to insufficiently investigated applicants in Bremen, as well as calculations of how much money it is costing Germany to basically take care of the refugees. full story
Austria: First newborn of the year has become a target of hateful commentary
10.1.2018 11:29 The Austrian daily Heute reports that when Alper and Naime Tamga welcomed their newborn daughter Asel into the world on New Year's Day, she was the country's very first newborn of 2018. Instead of congratulations, however, hateful comments were posted to social networking sites after a photograph of the happy family was published. full storyTensions rising between Austria and Italy over migrants
26.7.2017 9:58 Tensions are continuing to rise between Austria and Italy over disagreements about how to deal with migrants entering Europe. The chair of the Socialist group in the European Parliament (EP), Italian MEP Gianni Pittella, has accused the Austrian Foreign Minister of wanting to transform one of the Italian islands in the Mediterranean Sea into a "concentration camp". full story
Austria: Hitler impersonator arrested for appearing in the Nazi leader's home town
18.2.2017 9:59 A man who appeared in public dressed to appear like Adolf Hitler was arrested Monday, 13 February by police in the northern Austrian town of Ried im Innkreis. The impersonator of the Nazi leader had appeared several times in Hitler's birthplace as well, the Austrian Press Agency reported on 14 February. full storyTurkey faces criticism for planned abolition of punishment for the sexual abuse of children
16.8.2016 16:21 On the basis of a request from a lower court, Turkey's Constitutional Court decided last month to abolish a provision regulating the punishment of sexual crimes committed against children younger than 15. The district court had complained that current legislation does not distinguish between age groups and treats children between age 4 and age 14 equivalently. full story
Austria: Ultra-right extremists assault university rector during lecture
19.6.2016 10:27 A lecture at a university in the southern Austrian town of Klagenfurt was disrupted on 10 June by approximately 10 adherents of the ultra-right who burst into the lecture hall shouting with megaphones. Rector Oliver Vitouch told the Austrian Press Agency that one of them proceeded to strike him in the belly. full story
Austria: Arsonists set future asylum-seeker shelter on fire
9.6.2016 6:38 A wooden building in the north of Austria near the Czech and German borders that was supposed to become a shelter for asylum seekers was set on fire last week. According to representatives of the Red Cross, which owns the building, the fire was set by arsonists. full story
Austrian neo-Nazi massacres festival-goers
24.5.2016 22:46 At the beginning of the week the Czech media briefly reported on an incident in the small town of Nenzing, Austria, where on Sunday morning a 27-year-old man, after a seemingly banal argument with his girlfriend, shot randomly into a crowd of people. Two men died on the spot and more than 10 people were injured. full story
Austria: Arson attacks against Romani families from Romania
11.3.2016 20:38 Unidentified perpetrators set fire to the tents of Romani families from Romania in the Upper Austrian city of Linz at the beginning of March. Fortunately, no one was injured in that incident. full story
Austria's "word of the year" contest shows impact of refugee crisis
4.12.2015 22:35 "Willkommenskultur" ("the culture of welcome") has been voted Austria's 2015 "word of the year" in an online survey in which almost 34 000 people voted and an expert commission then chose what word to designate with this honor. The "misnomer of the year", on the other hand, is "special building measures", which Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner used to described a planned fence on the border with Slovenia. full story
Austria: Not even refugee crisis could bring the ultra-right full victory, SocDems still rule Vienna
13.10.2015 5:07 The Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) has won 39.4 % of the vote over its competitors, the ultra-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), and has therefore won the regional elections in Vienna. The FPÖ won 32.1 % of the vote, 6.4 % more than in 2010. full story
EU-funded online Roma resources project draws criticism from academics and activists
12.10.2015 16:42 Stefan Benedik of the History Department at the University of Graz in Austria has written a protest letter regarding the online promotional video for a project called "e-roma-resource" (e-RR) funded by the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme. The video has since been removed. full story
VIDEO: Austrian gives refugees a ride - look what happened next!
8.9.2015 22:05 On Sunday, 6 September, approximately 100 Austrians announced they were undertaking a private initiative to assist refugees and drove to Hungary in their own cars from Vienna that same day. The aim of their trip was to deliver necessary items to refugees desperately waiting for a chance to reach their destinations - and to personally transport at least some of them to Austria. full story
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