No Perfume, Please: Viennese Against Scented Subway Air
Vienna subway travelers have decided that they don’t want their train rides to be scented.
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Heirs of Holocaust Victim Prevail in Art-Recovery Case
In a ruling with profound expected consequences for the German-Austria art scene, an appeals court cleared the way Tuesday for the heirs of a Jewish cabaret performer murdered in the Holocaust to recover two paintings from a British collector.
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Facebook US Data-Transfer Case Goes to Europe’s Top Court
An Austrian privacy campaigner’s long-running legal battle against Facebook over its data transfers to the U.S. reached the European Union’s highest court on Tuesday.
Read moreEU Judge Eyes Expansion of Facebook Defamation Patrol
Opening with a quotation from “The Social Network,” an EU magistrate called Tuesday for Facebook to face expanded obligations when it comes to deleting defamatory content posted by its users.
Read moreLawmakers Probe Russia’s Ramped-Up Threats to Democracy
Girding the country for a new round of Kremlin-driven interference in next year’s election, members of Congress grilled foreign-affairs experts Tuesday about how Russia uses disinformation and financial corruption to sow chaos across the globe.
Read moreAustrian Government Collapses Over Right-Wing Video Scandal
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called time Monday on his coalition government with the far-right Freedom Party after its leader was shown on video appearing to offer favors to a purported Russian investor.
Read moreLost Your Passport in Austria? McDonald’s to the Rescue
In Austria, the fast-food chain McDonald’s has been recruited by the U.S. Embassy to come to the rescue of distressed American tourists who’ve lost a passport, cellphone or find themselves in some other traveler’s nightmare.
Read moreHolocaust Survey Exposes Gaps in Austrians’ Knowledge
A new survey has found that many Austrians lack basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide — even though the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp was just outside of the city of Linz, and some of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust were Austrian.
Read moreDiscrimination Suit Over German Highway Tax Circles Drain
Recommending the dismissal of an unusual case between EU member states, a magistrate said Wednesday that Austria cannot support discrimination claims over a new highway tax in Germany.
Read moreAustrian Holiday Unfairly Favors Protestants, EU Court Rules
Although the majority of Austrians identify as Roman Catholic, national law makes Good Friday a paid holiday only for people who belong to Protestant churches. But the EU high court ruled Tuesday that until Austria amends its law to “restore equal treatment,” Good Friday must be a paid holiday for all private employees.
Read moreSnowed-In Austrian Nuns Insist They’re Staying Put
Authorities in Austria tried to reach dozens of Catholic nuns whose Alpine monastery has been cut off from the world for days because of heavy snowfall.
Read morePolice: 3 Men Walk Off With Renoir Ahead of Austria Auction
Three unknown men allegedly stole a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir from an auction house in Vienna, police said Wednesday.
Read moreGreek Actions in Financial Crisis Sidestep Civil Rules, EU Court Says
Because Greece was wielding its public authority when it devalued bonds during its financial crisis, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a foreign bond holder cannot rely on the EU’s commercial or civil rules to bring a suit in Austria.
Read moreAustria Says It Won’t Sign UN Global Migration Pact
The Austrian government said Wednesday that it won’t sign a global compact to promote safe and orderly migration, citing concerns about national sovereignty as it joined neighboring Hungary in shunning the agreement.
Read moreEuropean Court Rejects Austrian’s Case Over Prophet Slur
The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech.
Read moreAustrian Court Acquits 17 Defendants in Far-Right Trial
A court in Austria has acquitted 17 members of the far-right Identitarian Movement of incitement to hatred and forming a criminal organization in connection with several high-profile stunts directed against migrants.
Read moreMerkel Pushed to Tighten Border Against Asylum Seekers
Germany’s ruling coalition has averted a crisis – for now at least – after Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to tighten her country’s southern border against asylum seekers, according to news reports.
Read moreAustria Says It’s Prepared to ‘Protect’ Its Southern Border
Austria’s government and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners raised questions Tuesday about a deal to end a crisis over migration policy, with Vienna saying it is prepared to take unspecified measures to “protect” Austria’s southern border if migrants are its neighbor turns back migrants.
Read morePutin Visits Austria Amid Fraught Russia-EU Ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Tuesday in Austria, one of the European Union’s more Russia-friendly members, on his first foreign trip since being sworn in for a fourth term.
Read moreAustria’s Security Demands Fail to Sway EU Magistrate
Europe’s highest court should crack down on Austria, a magistrate advised Tuesday, for requiring one of its citizens to make a security deposit on behalf of the foreign contractor he hired to perform work on his house.
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