Austria

Austria

Travellers charged €190 at Vienna airport to avoid 14-day quarantine

Austria says anyone arriving at its airports or land borders without proof they are COVID-19-free must go into isolation.

06/05/2020

Austria

Austria begins reopening after 'very early and very harsh' lockdown

Austria's early intervention allowed it to begin lifting lockdown restrictions earlier than other European countries, it's been claimed.

20/04/2020

Austria

COVID-19: Vienna residents visit Plague Column to ask for protection

Vienna's Plague Column, erected after the Great Plague of 1679, has become a site of pilgrimage as the country battles the COVID-19 pandemic.

31/03/2020

Earth News

Your worldview can change who you think is to blame for climate change

Don't think you should give up meat to combat climate change? The way you view the world might explain why.

12/03/2020

Austria

Avalanche sweeps away hiking group in Austrian Alps

An avalanche in the Dachstein area of the Austrian Alps killed five hikers on Sunday, police said.

08/03/2020

Business Planet

Packing a sustainable punch: how Europe is forming a new relationship with plastic

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet heads to Austria to see how one big family firm is attempting to turn the problem of plastic pollution from packaging into a sustainable business opportunity.

06/03/2020

Business Planet

A bad 'wrap': restoring plastic's reputation

In partnership with The European Commission

Business Planet speaks with a leading figure in the plastics industry to find out how the unbiodegradable material can become more environment friendly.

06/03/2020

Austria

Austria suspends train traffic to and from Italy over coronavirus

Austria stopped a train at the border on Sunday evening after being informed by Italian authorities that two passengers had a fever.

23/02/2020

Austria

Austrian Post has Brexit stamp problem licked with unique date imprint

With Brexit Day finally happening, postal officials in Austria decided to use obsolete stamps by adding the real Brexit date in using overprinting.

01/02/2020

Musica

Der Messias: Robert Wilson stages Mozart's oratorio in Salzburg

Der Messias which premiered in Mozart Week in Salzburg in a production staged by American director and visual artist Robert Wilson, known as the 'master of minimalism'

30/01/2020

Austria

Mayor of 'Frozen' Austrian town taking new stance against overtourism

Hallstatt Mayor Alexander Scheutz told Euronews that while tourism has contributed favourably to the economy, there are now "too many people" coming to the town.

20/01/2020

Musica

Vienna Philharmonic marches to its own tune

The 178-year-old Vienna Philharmonic has played under the baton of some of the world's most famous maestros. But it marches to its own tune.

16/01/2020

Austria

Austria can be 'model' for climate policy, says Arnold Schwarzenegger

It came as the actor-turned-politician was praising Austria's new conservative-green coalition government.

10/01/2020

Austria

Austria's Kurz condemns online abuse against Bosnian-born minister

Hate speech is "an obnoxious phenomenon of our time" and "has no place" in Austria, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Twitter.

10/01/2020

Austria

Mix-up sees soap opera subtitles appear as Austria government sworn in

Public broadcaster left red-faced after captions mistake.

09/01/2020

Austria

Austria's new coalition wants 'pioneering role' against climate change

Austria's conservatives announced a new coalition government with the Greens.

01/01/2020

Austria

Vienna ballet students ‘told to smoke’ to stay slim

Student dancers at Vienna State Opera’s top ballet school were subjected to physical and mental abuse, an investigation has found.

18/12/2019

No Comment

Footage emerges of newborn polar bear at Vienna zoo

It's eight years since the zoo last welcomed a polar bear cub into the world

26/11/2019

Austria

Hot chocolate as thieves brazenly steal truck-load of the sweet stuff

Outsourcing turns sour for a chocolate firm as a 20,000-tonne consignment is stolen from a factory in Austria.

23/11/2019

Austria

Probe into Austrian far-right party finds gold hidden in Alpine hotel

Investigators probing Austria’s far-right FPÖ found gold bars hidden in a hotel in the Tyrolean Alps, which the party insists was an investment.

22/11/2019

Austria

Adolf Hitler's childhood home will be converted into a police station

Austrian authorities are concerned that the building could turn into a shrine for neo-Nazis.

20/11/2019

Musica

Time with the best: Vienna Philharmonic's mastery passed to Peruvian protégés

“Sinfonía por el Perú” is a project created eight years ago by Tenor Juan Diego Flórez which offers free music education to disadvantaged children. Fifty of the young group traveled to Saltzburg to learn from the best. Watch the Musica programme to see how they got on.

31/10/2019

Austria

Watch: Eliud Kipchoge first to run sub two-hour marathon distance

Kipchoge, the world marathon record holder, will be hoping to be second time lucky after he narrowly failed in his first try in 2017 by running the length of a marathon in 2:00:25.

12/10/2019

Austria

Five murdered in Austrian ski town of Kitzbuehel - police

Five murdered in Austrian ski town of Kitzbuehel - police

06/10/2019

Austria

Vienna opens its first 'made for Instagram' selfie museum

Attendees are invited to take selfies in 24 interactive installations inside the museum, which opens on Friday.

04/10/2019

Austria

Watch: Footgolf world championships held in Austria

There is no longer any need to choose between football and golf at the weekends. Footgolf – football played on the golf course – is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide.

04/10/2019