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Austria country news

The European Commission on June 25 cleared the proposed acquisition of Plus Elelmiszer Diszkont Kft a Hungarian discount retailer, by the Austrian retailer Spar, Portfolio... full story

EU approves Vienna Insurance/Erste Bank deal

Upper Austria goes solar

Air France-KLM keep mum on the AUA deal

Vodafone partners up with mobilkom austria group

OMV under fire over Iran at its shareholders’ meeting

Luxembourg and Austria block EU tax haven clamp

Austria plans to accelerate hydropower development

Uniqa reports 53% profit increase for last year

Keep talking to Turkey, but the door could shut

Political

Austria to issue passports with fingerprints check

Austrian Interior Minister Gunther Platter and Justice Minister Maria Berger on June 11 presented on June 11 the implementation of fingerprints-passports to the Council of Ministers in Vienna.... full story

Mesic, Sanader discuss closer ties with Austria

Ride the bus or use your mobile phone, but not both

Austrian Chancellor coming to talk on range of issues

Austria Rail under fire over its salary levels

Calls for reintroduction of the monarchy

Online investigation for PCs on the horizon

Ruling parties tamper with Wikipedia site

US reacts to defence minister’s comments on missile plan

Corruption committee’s decision on aircrafts due this week

more political news...

Business

Austrian Airlines ponders an enticing Asian deal

The Supervisory Board of Austrian Airlines (AUA) reiterated their current difficulties when they met on June 25, Austrian Times reported. The airline is looking for... full story

NIKI air is downsizing its operation off costs

Further privatisation of Verbund being readied

Wienerberger buys Croatian brick producer stake

Austrian carrier shows loss, mulls a strategic partner

Erste Bank and Bayern LB are talking merger

VSE buys into Budapest peer

Voestalpine sales top 10 bln Euro

Vienna Insurance pledge to be Erste’s ‘White Knight’

Romanian insurer goes to UNIQA Group Austria

Economic

ECHR orders Austria to compensate Bulgarian deportee

Austria must pay a deported Bulgarian national 3,000 Euro (USD 4,684) in compensation, the European Court of Human Rights ruled last week. The 24-year-old had... full story

GDP grows unexpectedly in first quarter of 2008

March unemployment rate drops by 11.5%

Tourism to grow this month

Ministers call for rent freeze and lower prices for medications

Drop in consumer confidence slows 2007 growth

Brussels approves Austrian rules on Nabucco pipeline

AT&S Q3 net income up 42% to 11.7 mln Euro

AUA’s passenger volume stagnates in 2007

SkyEurope stabilises by halving losses

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Blatant Benevolence
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IS THIS REALLY RIGHT?
By Clare Payne manages the Integrity Office of an Australian Investment Bank

Migrants should not be seen as criminals
By Paulo Casaca is as Member of the European Parliament from Portugal

Towards a European Public Sphere
By Georgios Papastatmkos is a Member of the European Parliament from Greece

Saving Resources to Save Growth
By Jeffrey Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Europe’s Calamity
By Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998 to 2005

From Lisbon to Dublin and back again
By MEP Costas Botopoulos is a Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament for Greece

Kashagan development postponed until 2013
interview with Timur Kulibaev, KazEnergy Association head

Scarcity in an Age of Plenty
By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor at Columbia University

European vision of Serbia
interview with Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Bozidar Djelic

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