Austria

Austria

Germany and Austria beef up border checks

Austrian authorities have followed Germany’s lead and imposed additional border checks on its eastern border. Train services from Hungary via Austria

14/09/2015

Austria

Austria closes motorway between Vienna and Hungarian border

Austria has closed the motorway that leads from the Hungarian border to Vienna, and its train connections with Hungary will remain closed through the

11/09/2015

Sport

Austrian skiing ace Raich retires

Austrian Benjamin Raich has called time on his glittering career announcing his retirement after 19 years on the World Cup circuit. The 37-year-old

10/09/2015

Austria

Migrants: Austrian rail suspends services to and from Hungary

Austrian state railways have suspended services to and from Hungary as a result of overcrowding. Special trains have been laid on to transport

10/09/2015

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Migrants arrive in Austria

07/09/2015

Austria

Next stop Vienna as migrants board trains to the Austrian capital

After days of despair for thousands of migrants in Budapest the Hungarian government has taken the decision to bus the asylum seekers to the Austrian

05/09/2015

Austria

Austrian lorry: 71 victims suffocated almost immediately say police

Police in Austria say the 71 migrants found dead in an abandoned lorry last week appear to have died of suffocation almost immediately after being

04/09/2015

Musica

Jonas Kaufmann: three operas, three roles, three styles

03/09/2015

Musica

Portrait: Claus Guth

03/09/2015

Austria

Austria: Afghan teenagers rescued from van which had doors welded shut

Amid Europe’s migrant crisis, Austrian police say they have rescued 24 Afghan teenagers from a van which had its doors welded shut. The vehicle was

02/09/2015

Austria

'No person is illegal' - Vienna holds rally for refugees

Thousands turn out in Vienna to welcome refugees after a wave of anti migrant sentiment and tragedies

01/09/2015

Austria

Austria and Hungary hope arrests will lead to human trafficking ringleaders

Hungarian police say they have arrested a fifth man, a Bulgarian, in connection with the deaths of 71 people who were found in an abandoned lorry in

30/08/2015

Europe News

Austria tops the migrant league

A migrant reception centre in Traiskirchen, Austria is now housing 4,300 asylum seekers, despite its official capacity of 2,300. It is symptomatic of

28/08/2015

Austria

Arrests made over Austria migrant lorry tragedy

Authorities have confirmed that arrests have been made in connection to the lorry tragedy.

28/08/2015

Austria

'It's called the route of death': up to 200 migrants feared dead off Libyan coast

Hundreds of migrants are feared perished as shocking images show a tragic end to what is being labelled the 'route of death.'

28/08/2015

Austria

Migrants: Vienna summit given added impetus

The discovery of a lorry containing the corpses of dead refugees on an Austrian motorway gave added impetus to a key summit on migration in Vienna

28/08/2015

Austria

More than 70 suspected immigrants dead in Austria truck

More than 70 bodies have been recovered from a lorry found abandoned near the border with Hungary, officials have said. The refrigerated, air-tight

27/08/2015

Austria

EU leaders discuss migrant crisis in western Balkan summit

EU leaders are gathering in the Austrian capital Vienna to discuss how to deal with the influx of migrants to the region. About 100,000 people, many

27/08/2015

Austria

Austria: dozens of migrants die locked in an air-tight truck

Police examining a lorry abandoned in the lay-by of a motorway in Austria have made a grim discovery. The bodies of at least 20 immigrants have been

27/08/2015

Musica

Kaufmann's dark take on Beethoven at Salzburg Festival

It is one of the highlights of this year’s Salzburg Festival: The new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”. On stage, there’s a remarkable cast

20/08/2015

Musica

Watch Fidelio at the Salzburg Festival with Jonas Kaufmann & Adrianne Pieczonka

13/08/2015

Austria

Heatwave hits Central and Eastern Europe

We all love a long, hot summer – apart from when it is too long and too hot. Try asking the people of Vienna, who are struggling to keep cool after

11/08/2015

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Preparing for Mars

08/08/2015

Austria

Austria: overwhelmed refugee centre closes to new arrivals

One of Austria’s largest refugee centres is closing to new arrivals because it is bursting at the seams. The facility, in Traiskirchen, south of

04/08/2015

Sport

Austrian pole vaulter Grunberg left paraplegic after training accident

Austria’s leading Pole vaulter Kira Grunberg has been left paraplegic following a training accident. The 21-year-old – who is trained by her father –

31/07/2015

Austria

Austria bans 'Nazi coded' car number plates

Austria has banned new car number plates which have hidden codes symbolising support for neo-Nazi or other extremist causes. More than 30 number and

24/07/2015