May 5, 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi decried on Thursday the “unjustified” proposal from Vienna to erect a fence at Austria’s alpine border with Italy to stem the flow […]
March 3, 2016 It may well be that no other country in Europe has reversed its refugee policy as rapidly as Austria. Now Vienna sees itself in the vanguard of European refugee policy. The German […]
Austrian Christmas and New Year’s Markets Decorations and candles for the tree, toys and handicrafts, punch and cookies: Held on some of the city’s prettiest squares, Vienna’s Advent and Christmas markets get everyone in the […]
Austria: Praterstrasse Praterstrasse, in Vienna’s second district, runs directly from the city centre to the Praterstern transport hub. Fashionable shops and cafés are springing up like mushrooms on this one-kilometer long, tree-lined boulevard. The gateway […]
Spotlight on the ninth district of Austria’s capital Sigmund Freud’s consulting rooms and Franz Schubert’s birthplace, summertime bars on the banks of the Danube Canal, an artisanal chocolate factory, the university campus and Austria’s largest […]
For 35 years Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll held the world record for most World Cup victories in skiing, she won 62 times. With today’s super-G win in Italy, her 63rd, American Lyndsey Vonn now holds the […]
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz did something many dream of, but only a very selected few, and even fewer Austrians, achieve: He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday December 1st 2014. […]
(Reuters) – Austria’s youthful foreign minister began his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday by acknowledging his place in the world and offering something rarely seen during the annual meeting of world leaders. […]
The legendary Udo Jürgens won the classic European Songcontest in 1966 and ever since then, no winner for Austria, until: CONCHITA WURST in 2014.
Listen to the Amadeus Award Winners like Anna F. and Christina Stürmer: Christina Stürmer: She won an ECHO, the German music award earlier this year: Anna F. Maybe a future winner, the Tyrolean Soe Tolloy:
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