Austria's hijab ban: First step in the punishment of Muslim life

To dismiss the hijab ban as symbolic, temporary, or “cheap politics” is to underestimate its impact. Its danger lies in what it reveals about the state’s broader intentions, writes Nehal Abdalla. [GETTY] The newly formed Austrian government, a...

Austrian Government introduces far-reaching rent controls

The Austrian Government coalition has agreed on significant State interventions in the rental market. It sees the Conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) effectively giving in to demands from its junior partner, the Social Democrats (SPÖ)....

EU ministers fail to agree climate targets, raising risk leaders will weaken them

Environment ministers representing the European Union’s 27 member states failed to agree emissions reduction targets for 2035 and 2040 in Brussels on Thursday, instead asking their countries’ leaders to weigh in when they meet next month. With...

Ryanair and Wizz Air cut Vienna activities due to ‘punitive aviation tax’

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced it is moving three of its 19 aircraft based at Vienna airport to other countries and will close down three routes from the Austrian capital. The company said yesterday that the high tax burden in...

Ryanair cuts Vienna capacity, urges Austria to scrap air travel tax

Ryanair will withdraw three aircraft from Vienna and cancel three routes—Billund, Santander, and Tallinn—during the winter 2025 schedule, citing Austria’s €12 air travel tax and rising airport charges, which the airline says make the country...

Governments need to deliver ‘consistency of policy’ to hit EV targets, says Kia boss

Governments from around Europe and the UK need ‘consistency of policy’ in order to achieve ambitious targets to transition towards EVs. That’s according to Kia’s European marketing director, David Hilbert, who expressed his thoughts about what...

European Work in Progress and the International Film Distribution Summit set to kick off in Hamburg

18/09/2025 - The eighth edition of EWIP received over 240 submissions, with 30 projects selected, while Charades will receive the Best International Innovation Distribution Award at IFDS Heysel 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai (© Guillaume Van Laethem for...

Op-Ed: Mamdani’s Vienna Plan' would wreck New York's housing

New York rents just hit another all-time high, straining working families across the five boroughs. But instead of tackling the real problem—too little housing supply—socialist Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria) wants to...

Historic tunnel created under the Alps to connect Italy and Austria

Audio By Carbonatix ROME (Reuters) -Workers broke through a final, thin veil of rock on Thursday, opening an underground tunnel between Austria and Italy that will eventually become a high-speed rail line linking the north and south of Europe. The...

RTA to host Dubai World Congress & Challenge for Self-Driving Transport

Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, the fourth edition of the Dubai World Congress and...

Vietnam wins Russia's 'Intervision' song contest, rival to Eurovision

Vietnam was crowned the winner of the Russian-hosted Intervision song contest in the early hours of Sunday morning, a competition backed by President Vladimir Putin and conceived as a geopolitical and socially conservative rival to Eurovision....

Message from the past - Czech president’s secret letter to be unsealed after 88 years

Masaryk was one of the first European statesmen to raise the alarm about the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. Nazi Germany would annex the Sudetenland in 1938, a year after his death, before completely occupying Czechoslovakia. With the historical...

Austrian Film Festival to bring cultural exchange to China

Jessica Hausner and Markus Binder, director and music producer of Club Zero, attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 Austrian Film Festival in Beijing on Monday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A visual feast for Chinese movie fans, the 2025...

Legal/Legislative Update at the GWSCPA 2025 Government Contracting Conference

On September 25, join me in Vienna, Virginia at the Greater Washington Society of CPAs (GWSCPA) 2025 Government Contracting Conference where I will lead a session on the latest Legislative and Legal Updates. My session will cover the following...

Austria's Citynet Adopts RtBrick Software & UfiSpace Hardware to Modernize Broadband Network

Citynet, a regional ISP in Austria and IT Brand of Hall AG, has deployed a fully disaggregated Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) using open hardware from UfiSpace and routing software from RtBrick. The shift to a software-based network architecture...

Ryanair Cuts Winter Flights From Vienna

Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has announced a significant reduction of its flight program from Vienna Airport, following a similar move by Wizz Air earlier this year. Both airlines cited high taxes and soaring airport fees as the main reasons for...

Tony & Ziva’s Prison Break, ‘Reasonable Doubt’ Returns, Jason Bateman and Jude Law in ‘Black Rabbit,’ Swimming with Dolphins

Marcell Piti / Paramount+NCIS: Tony & Ziva “We’re about to do something either brilliant or really idiotic,” predicts Ziva David (Cote de Pablo) as she and longtime romantic and sparring partner Tony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) prepare to storm a...

International Day: Lagos warns against using ozone-depleting gases for refrigerators, others

• Says there are penalties • FG pledges collaboration to protect environment Lagos State government, yesterday, warned residents and technicians against using ozone-depleting gases in refrigerators and other cooling equipment. General Manager of...

Slovakia Ready to Import Non-Russian Oil and Gas if Transport Routes Are Available, Says Economy Minister

Slovakia has no problem importing non-Russian oil and gas, provided it has sufficient transport routes. Economy Minister Denisa Saková (Hlas-SD) stated this after Wednesday’s government meeting in response to remarks by U.S. Senator Lindsey...

Austria's Meinl-Reisinger Welcomes Chinese Counterpart with Focus on Geopolitics and Trade

A diplomatic offensive by China in Europe led to a high-level meeting in Vienna, where Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with both Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger. The talks focused on...