Austria

Austria temporarily shut down all train traffic from Italy because of a Coronavirus alarm on a train that had left Venice for Munich. It turned out to be a false alarm, but the fear remains.

The Austrian conservatives of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' party ÖVP and the Greens successfully ended their negotiations for a government coalition they…

Whoever wants to book big name Soul and Funk bands in Europe, will need to talk to Georg Leitner, in most cases. The concert agent from Vienna and his helpers…

After the 'Ibiza Scandal' which brought down former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' government coalition in May, he won the Austrian snap elections on Sunday. It looks like Kurz will have several options for forming a new government.

Now Austria is wondering just how much influence the big northern neighbor has. This includes the media, but also Chancellor Angela Merkel's CDU, the ÖVP's…

"Europe is a constellation of countries which decided to cooperate on the basis of common values", Merkel said in Zagreb. "We are dealing with populist…

Today the central Austrian municipality Hochkar became an official disaster zone. Here and in other regions, roads were closed. The famous Hochkar Alpine Road had been cleared on Tuesday. Today, it needed to be closed again today due to all the snow and because trees which could not withstand the weight of the snow fell and blocked the road.