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Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications company, has announced that it is moving its central European headquarters from Vienna to Budapest.
At present the Vienna office controls operations in Switzer...
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Vienna extends resident parking zones
Residents’ parking is to be extended in Vienna to the 12th (Meidling), 14th (Penzing), 15th (Rudolfsheim and Fünfhaus), 16th and 17th (Hernals) districts in October.
Residents in the 14t...
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Fashion week in Vienna runs from 12-16 September. About 80 designers take part in the event which is located in the city’s Museumquartier. The fashion week is now in its fourth year and was drew...
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Austrian Airlines to invest in quality
Austrian Airlines has announced plans to remodel ten of its long-haul planes to give passengers a better quality service.
Business class is to be equipped with beds, more comfortable seating arrang...
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Vienna is screening classical and pop concerts in the Rathausplatz until 2 September.
There will be 47 free events, including productions of the Vienna State Opera and some ballet galas.
The vas...
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Vienna reserves on-street parking for residents
Special on-street parking areas for cars of residents are now available in the Vienna centre-city districts of Mariahilf, Neubau and Josefstadt.
The special parking bays are reserved both for resid...
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Vienna’s Lipizzaner mares and foals on show
Six Lipizzaner mares and their foals are on show at the famous Viennese Spanish Riding School from 3-29 July. During this period the school usually takes a summer break while the stallions are away fo...
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The privately-owned Schloss park in Eisenstadt, just south of Vienna, is open for concerts and picnics during the summer.
For four weekends in July and August there will be themed events such as Vi...
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Vienna city council has approved plans to rename a street in Vienna named after a mayor who inspired Hitler’s anti-semitism.
Karl Lueger Ring will become Universitaetring in the autumn when t...
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Vienna celebrates Gustav Klimt
Vienna has dedicated 2012 to Gustav Klimt, the Austrian Symbolist painter whose 150th anniversary of birth was on 6 February. To celebrate the life and work of the artist who spent most of his life in...
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Vienna celebrates Gustav Klimt
Vienna has dedicated 2012 to Gustav Klimt, the Austrian Symbolist painter whose 150th anniversary of birth was on 6 February. To celebrate the life and work of the artist who spent most of his life in...
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Vienna’s Green Party wants to improve conditions for bicyclists in the city. One of the party’s suggestions is that the federal law should be changed that restricts bicycles to special lan...
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Austrians opt for new driving licences
Over 2.5 million Austrians have now traded in their old paper driving licences for new plastic ones.
The paper licences, which have not been issued since 2006, are still valid for another 15 years...
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Austrian Railways has reported that 96.6 per cent of its trains run on time and that 98.4 per cent of the short journeys, which include the Vienna’s S-Bahn, deliver passengers to their destinati...
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Austrian Railways has reported that 96.6 per cent of its trains run on time and that 98.4 per cent of the short journeys, which include the Vienna
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Tourism is expected to stagnate in the first half of 2012 and then pick up towards the end of the year according to the head of the city
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Vienna has world’s best quality of life
Vienna has once again been ranked as the city with the best quality of life according to Mercer
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Austria gave permission at the end of November to extend hunting wild boar throughout the whole of the capital Vienna. Game hunting has always been allowed in some special reserves but now killing boa...
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Lack of snow slows Christmas spending
Spending over the Christmas period is likely to drop in Austria this year. According to a report in the Austrian Times it is estimated that Austrians will spend
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UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS RISE IN VIENNA
The number of unemployed has risen again sharply in Vienna, despite figures for Austria as a whole remaining steady. Figures released for August from the Federal Labour Market Service (AMS) show a 6.9...
