Austria

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 are behind many the coolest gigs. In 1977, a teenager from Vienna started organizing concerts for the late British Blues guru Alexis Korner and some Austrian acts. At that point Georg…

After the 'Ibiza Scandal' which brought down former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz' government coalition in May, he won the Austrian snap elections on Sunday. It…

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 movements here, which despise those values in many areas. We have to oppose them decidedly."

Today the central Austrian municipality Hochkar became an official disaster zone. Here and in other regions, roads were closed. The famous Hochkar Alpine Road…