Tag: Austrian People’s Party
Relegation of the year: Sebastian Kurz, failed exceptional talent
Sebastian Kurz The 35-year-old has withdrawn from politics. Even Sebastian Kurz’s opponents can hardly deny that he is a real exceptional talent. He has radically modernized his People’s Party and…
What the political earthquake means for the country
Vienna You are “on thin ice”, said the then Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg in mid-October after he was determined to be Sebastian Kurz’s successor in a push-button action. In view of…
What the political earthquake means for the country
Vienna You are “on thin ice”, said the then Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg in mid-October after he was determined to be Sebastian Kurz’s successor in a push-button action. In view of…
Karl Nehammer becomes Austria’s Chancellor
Karl Nehammer Nehammer came into the spotlight of the international public after the Vienna terrorist attack on November 2, 2020. (Photo: AP) Vienna Some contemptuously call Austria’s new Federal Chancellor…
Austria’s Interior Minister Nehammer becomes the new Chancellor
Karl Nehammer The 49-year-old announced on Friday after a meeting of the party committees that he had been unanimously elected as the new chancellor and party leader by the executive…
Farewell in the name of the rose – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
Angela Merkel’s “Big Zapfenstreich”: a farewell in the name of the rose. The degree of wetness in their eyes changed slightly when the Bundeswehr played their Hildegard Knef music request…
Austria’s Chancellor Schallenberg provides office
Schallenberg, in short Shadow Chancellor, Chancellor. Ex-Chancellor. (Photo: imago images / photonews.at) Vienna Austria’s Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) makes his office available. A spokesman for the Chancellor announced on…
Austria’s Chancellor Schallenberg provides office
Alexander Schallenberg Sebastian Kurz’s successor as Austrian Chancellor has only been in office since the beginning of October. (Photo: AP) Vienna Austria’s Federal Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP) makes his office…
Sebastian Kurz allegedly wants to withdraw from politics
Sebastian Kurz The Austrian Chancellor resigned after allegations of corruption. (Photo: dpa) Vienna Sebastian Kurz, the former high-flyer of Austrian politics, wants to step down from all political offices. This…
Sebastian Kurz allegedly wants to withdraw from politics
Sebastian Kurz The Austrian Chancellor resigned after allegations of corruption. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Sebastian Kurz allegedly wants to resign from all political offices. Several media reports unanimously. At 11.30 a.m.…
Sebastian Kurz allegedly wants to withdraw from politics
Sebastian Kurz The Austrian Chancellor resigned after allegations of corruption. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Sebastian Kurz allegedly wants to resign from all political offices. This is reported by the Austrian media…
How the government brought the country into a fourth lockdown
Vienna Day one of the nationwide lockdown in Austria: It’s quiet, but not deserted. Vienna doesn’t seem as deserted as it did during the first lockdown in March 2020. At…
Corona demo in Vienna: Austria’s anti-vaccination campaigners mobilize tens of thousands
Vienna On the Saturday before the lockdown, everyone is out and about in downtown Vienna. The terraces of the coffee houses are full, queues form in front of the sausage…
Corona demo in Vienna: Austria’s anti-vaccination campaigners mobilize tens of thousands
Vienna On the Saturday before the lockdown, everyone is out and about in downtown Vienna. The terraces of the coffee houses are full, queues form in front of the sausage…
The lockdown is supposed to save the ski season in the Alps
Austria facing difficult winter season Closed ski area in Austria a year ago: will the winter season be canceled again? (Photo: dpa) Vienna Austria is back where it was exactly…
The whole of Austria is going into lockdown again
The government made up of the ÖVP and the Greens announced a tough lockdown for all of Austria on Friday in Vienna after a meeting with the provincial governors in…
The whole of Austria is going into lockdown again
The government made up of the ÖVP and the Greens announced a tough lockdown for all of Austria on Friday in Vienna after a meeting with the provincial governors in…
Salzburg and Upper Austria go into lockdown
Salzburg People stand in a queue in front of a vaccination bus in Salzburg. There is already a lockdown for unvaccinated people. (Photo: dpa) Salzburg The two Austrian regions with…
Upper Austria imposes lockdown for unvaccinated people
Thomas Stelzer The situation is dramatic, said the governor of the conservative ÖVP. (Photo: dpa) Vienna Austria is taking ever stricter measures against the fourth corona wave spreading in the…
Schallenberg criticizes Kurz’s chats
Vienna Alexander Schallenberg is unexpectedly at the head of Austria’s government. In the interview, the former Foreign Minister emphasized the closeness to his predecessor: “Sebastian Kurz and I worked very…