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May 2025

Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Car Owners?
Austria's new government has targeted environmental subsidies in cutting €6.4 billion from the budget in 2025
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Liam Hoare
Leitln, Wir Ham Den Schas Gewonnen
Austria will host the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026: a boon for whichever city it is held in, if not the government and public broadcaster that has to…
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Liam Hoare
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Controlled Freedom: Allied Forces in Vienna
A new exhibition at the Wien Museum examines the Allies' postwar occupation of Vienna and its impact on the cultural realm in the context of the Cold…
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Liam Hoare
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April 2025

Accounting For The Past
Austria's new government plans to carry out a feasibility study into establishing the country's first Holocaust museum
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Liam Hoare
City Life
Vienna will hold state and local elections this weekend which are expected to reaffirm the Social Democratic Party's dominant position in Viennese…
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Liam Hoare
Comfort Blanket
Former environment minister Leonore Gewessler looks set to be crowned the Greens' next leader, avoiding an open debate over the party's future
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Liam Hoare
Egon Schiele's Last Years
A new exhibition at Vienna's Leopold Museum shows the expressionist Schiele's artistic maturation during a period of political and personal turmoil
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Liam Hoare
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4.7 Percent
The Austrian Institute for Economic Research forecasts that Austria's economy will contract for the third year in a row in 2025
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Liam Hoare

March 2025

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