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	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria challenges Germany\'s new pension tax ruling A change to German tax law will require around 150,000 Austrians currently in receipt of a German
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Russia likely to return unique Esterhazy books to Austria soonAn agreement to return to Austria a unique book collection that was put together by Austria's Esterhazy upper class family and was b
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Rat poison terror alertAnti-terror police are investigating whether nine tonnes of rat poison stolen together with an Austrian firm's lorry might be used to make explosives. RDX is not only one

	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austrian banks gain after hitting targetsAustria’s biggest lenders were in demand this week after beating key capital targets set out by the European Banking Authority. The Austrian central ba
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Volksbanken triples H1 pre-tax profitPartly nationalised Austrian lender Volksbanken AG tripled first-half profit before tax to 49 million Euros ($61.2 million) as it tries to shrink back to health.
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Controversy as Austria plans to deport 1,000 NigeriansA controversial agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Austrian government, allegedly signed last week, to deport 1,000 Nig
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austrian defence minister says military to use unarmed surveillance dronesAustria’s defence minister says his country plans to buy surveillance drones for use at home and abroad. Defence Minis
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Nazi victims finally laid to restThey were starved, tortured and killed because they were considered inferior to the Aryan ideal set by Adolf Hitler. Then their organs were put into jars and display
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria rejects bank bonds backed by rescued Euro membersThe Austrian Central Bank will join Germany’s Bundesbank in rejecting as collateral bank bonds guaranteed by member states receiving aid from the European Union an
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Debt office head says unnecessary to change bonds issuance plansAustria sees no need to change its debt issuance program and is sticking to its plan to stay below the European Union’s deficit ceiling this year even as it
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria leads European gas-price surge as Russian supply dropsAustrian natural gas jumped by more than a third this week as Russian flows declined and freezing weather left about 250 people dead across Eastern Europe. Gas for
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austrians brace for harsh health reformKarlheinz Kopf said he was currently trying to convince the Social Democrats’ (SPÖ) debt brake negotiators that there was a savings potential of 1.8 billion Euros until 2017. S
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Spending power slidesAustria remains one of the richest countries in Europe – but new figures also show that people’s purchasing power is waning. The European Commission’s (EC) statistics agency, Eurostat, sa
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Debt brake as spreads over bunds hit recordAustria’s cabinet today signed off a draft law for a debt brake to cut its debt level to 60 percent of gross domestic product by 2020 as the yield spread on the Alpine republic
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria court clears politician over mosque gameAn Austrian court cleared a far-right politician of incitement on Friday, ruling that an online anti-mosque game used in his election campaign did not encourage violence against
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter No information on potential stake acquisitionEarlier press report claimed local businessman, other partners eyeing 20% stake in incumbent operator. Telekom Austria AG Friday said it has no information about speculation that an
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Growth of Austria s economy remains highThe growth of Austria's economy remained high in the second quarter of 2011. Despite the sombre mood among Austrian businesses due to stock market turbulences, the rise in the GDP cl
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria doesn’t see capital surcharge for nation’s top banksAustrian regulators won’t pursue a capital surcharge for the country’s biggest banks as European policymakers are debating how to adapt at the
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter ‘Hundreds’ of Austrian informers found in Czechoslovak archivesCzechoslovak communist era secret police archives show how hundreds of Austrians were paid to help secure the Cold War border. A sinister chapter in th
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria opens labour marketAustria is set open its labour market to 8 Eastern European members of the European Union (EU) on May 1 in a move that is expected to generate both challenges and opportunities. Austria and Germany a
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria says Turkey must recall ambassadorAustria demands that Turkey should recall its ambassador from Vienna, writes Turkish Beyazgazete newspaper. Official Vienna gave to understand to Ankara through diplomatic sources that
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter World War II-era Nazi mass grave thought foundHistorians believe they have found a World War II-era mass grave containing the bodies of 220 disabled people killed by Nazis in Austria, they announced this week. The discovery wa
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria approves €20 million for Jewish cemeteries Austria's parliament passed a bill Wednesday to provide €20 million ($27 million) in federal funds to restore Jewish cemeteries over the next two decades. The
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Bishop nomination is Vatican's demonstration of powerThe appointment of Ägidius Zsifkovics as new bishop of the Eisenstadt diocese has been branded a "reckless demonstration of power by the Vatican." Theolog
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann: “Mongolia is important partner”Austria’s Chancellor Werner Faymann declared that Mongolia is an important partner in Asia. The reason for such a statement was the visit of M
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	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Confusion in the Austrian parliamentA politician of the Peoples Party criticized a decision in a very emotional way. The bizarre thing about it? It was his own decision which he made only one day before.The fede
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Priest flooded with e-mail requests for pet blessingsAustrian priest Franz Zeiger is getting hundreds of e-mails from pet owners around the world, as he said he is the world's only Catholic cleric offering virtual bless
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter We care about your Carinthia …posters!Amazement and amusement in Austria's most western province Vorarlberg about the election posters of the Orange party called “BZÖ” for the state election.
	Unjust justice by Thanos Kalamidas A few days ago I wrote an article emphasizing that justice is blind; unfortunately reality came to remind me that justice is blind but it doesn’t matter if she would peek sometimes through the blinds. So I took some deep breaths and a long w
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Policeman doesn’t want to pay for brothel visitsDivorce and problems with the son because of his new girlfriend, a policeman from Vienna was searching for diversion from his everyday life agonies, and found his luck with young
	Endangered species, not the idiots by Thanos Kalamidas I checked intentionally all the endangered species lists I could find, but unfortunately there is a kind that is not included and the unfortunately goes to the idiots because that is the only species not endangered, on the contrary they seem to th
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Jörg Haider was drunkThe confirmation of Haiders alcohol levels at the time of his fatal car accident was released yesterday by the medical jurisprudence. The minister president of Carinthia had a BAC of 0.18 per cent. Now the gov
	[Elections] Rettet Ã–sterreich... by Newropeans-Magazine Les Autrichiens sont appelés aux urnes à la fin de ce mois. Le gouvernement précédent, une coalition droite/gauche élue même pas deux ans plus tôt, a conduit de crises en affaires le rég
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Austria to sell railway lines If you ever thought or wanted to buy a railway line in Austria, this might be the right time for you. The Austrian Federal
	The psychotic excuse by Thanos Kalamidas I’m returning to the same subject after a very brief time from my last article but with all the news agencies full of reports I cannot avoid it and I’m referring to the unbelievable Austrian father and the two families that grew under
	A state abused by Thanos Kalamidas Following on from the case of the Austrian ‘father’ - if it is ever possible to call him a father - and the unveiling drama with the torture and abuse of the family, I found myself thinking about the small society/neighborhood I live i
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter A busy policeman and a thief A female taxi driver from Vienna was attacked by a robber with a knife. Coincidentally a policeman came along the road. “Help”
	Austian Reporter by Euro Reporter Only Austria, Denmark meet EU carbon deadlineOf the five EU countries issued EU Allowances (EUAs) only Austria and Denmark have successfully met a deadline to allocate their industry permits to emit carbon dioxide, the European Union
	Austrian report by Euro Reporter Poisoned Chocolates The mayor of the little Lower Austrian of Spitz a der Donau was poisoned with chocolates which were filled with strychnine. The politician found a box with those chocolates on his car with the message
	Austrian Reporter by Euro Reporter 45-year-old's fight with kindergartenersA 45 year-old man entered a Viennese kindergarten of Floridsdorf and wanted to have a fight with kindergarten children. It was the female chief of the kindergarten who was ab
	Asking for a lynch by Thanos Kalamidas For the last few weeks I’ve been watching really carefully the news and the online reactions, blogs and forums, regarding the kidnapping of the Austrian teenager, Natascha Kampusch, now 18. After reading her interview fo