Friday, April 30, 2010

Austrians enjoy eating pork

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Austrias cuisine without pork wouldn’t be imaginable. Even Austrias traditional Schnitzel is more often made of pork as of calf. The pork consumption per capita in Austria is 56 kilogram every year. This is the third rank in Europe behind Cyprus and Spain.

The Austrian savourer loves everything on pork. Not just the noble pieces. Experts know that the Viennese cuisine received its brillant reputation because of many dishes which are made from all different parts of the pork.

Surprisingly the keeping conditions, way of feeding, and breeds are still no big deal for the Austrians. The most important thing

Thursday, April 29, 2010

HC Strache: “Money for Greece is purest lunacy”

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Greece is in its deepest financial crisis. European politicans discuss about giving some money to the broke member of the European Union. Especially Germany should pay a lot, but also Austria is designated as contributor. Freedom parties leader HC Strache is not happy about that.

In his latest press release he labeled the increase of up to two billions for Austrias Greece help as the “purest lunacy”, and criticised that “nothing is too expensive” for Austrias financial minister Pröll (Peoples party).

Strache declared that his Freedom party is categorical against the plans to spend such fantastic sums to help Greece.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Families in Austria

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Austria has currently 115.000 single parents. 92,4 percent of them are single mothers. The number of single parents in Austria is steady, explains a press release of “Statistik Austria”. Every eight woman with children in Austria is a single mother.

Austria counts 791.078 families with at least one child under 15 years. Married couples without children are increasing. At the moment there are 734.000 of them. The high number includes also older married couples who are not living anymore with their children in one house.


Source: Austria News

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Young German wife abandons her husband on motorway rest area

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A very rare case of negligence towards a husband happened in Upper Austrias motorway rest area of Seewalchen. A young German wife abandoned her husband there, and continued her trip by car with her daughter and her dog. Police found the unlucky man sleeping on the motorway embankment.

The young lady was found by the police on another motorway rest area , and received her husband back. But she was not interested to continue the trip with him. She gave him 150 Euro for the way home. Police brought the poor man to the next railway station. He took the

Monday, April 26, 2010

Impressing victory for Heinz Fischer

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Heinz Fischer is Austrias old and new president. He received 78,9 percent of all valid votes. His competitor Barbara Rosenkranz received 15,6 percent, and Gehring who wanted to bring more Christian religion into Austrian politics 5,4 percent. The first statements of the candidates. Heinz Fischer: “Fantastic majority.” Barbara Rosenkranz: “Quite respectable.” Rudolf Gehring: “I started with zero.”

The voter participation was low. Every second eligible voter stayed at home. The medias report about an historic trough in the voter participation. The number of rejected votes amount even 7 percent. Austrias daily newspaper “DerStandard” writes in today issue that the function

Friday, April 23, 2010

Bouncer received silver badge of honour in Vienna

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The honoree was the bouncer of a famous Viennese disco for many years. He is a native Munich, came to Vienna in the age of 18, and started to work as a bouncer at the beginning of the 80’s.

“Generations of young Viennese nighthawks met this special bouncer at the door of the famous disco”, reports the website of Austrias Broadcasting Corporation. His international connections are overwhelming. He knows the Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, and even knew the deceased singer Kurt Cobain. According to comments in Austrian internet forums, this kind of honour does not convince anyone. Critical comments remark

Thursday, April 22, 2010

83-year-old woman from Styria knocked down police officers

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A very strong 83-year-old woman experienced two police officers from Styria. The old lady was not excited about a routine traffic check. She jumped out of her car, knocked one police officer down, and attacked the other one with a passionate bite in his left hand. Both police officers sustained minor injuries.

Finally the police officers were able to overpower the angry old woman. She was arrested for resistance to the authority of the state. It might be quite possible that she is going to lose her driving license forever. The incident happened in the North Styrian district of Bruck

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Is Austrian president Heinz Fischer sanctimonious?

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Austrias daily newspaper “Die Presse” asks if Austrias president Heinz Fischer, who contests for a second time in office, is sanctimonious. The reason of such a question is based on his statements about invalid polling.

Heinz Fischer confirmed on Sundays TV shows “Pressestunde” that invalid polling depends on everyones attitude on democracy. “Democracy means decision”, he said. In the past weeks Fischer criticised statements of several politicans of the Peoples party who claimed that they are going to vote invalid, because there is no candidate of the Peoples party for the presidential election on Sunday.


The special thing about it?

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Hairdresser in Austria: prices of hair salons cause trouble

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Austrian women have to pay more at the hairdresser than men. Also for exact the same service. A TV program in Austrias Broadcasting Corporation “ORF” revealed the unequal pricing of Austrias hair salons.

Now even the official representation of employees in Austria, also known as “Arbeiterkammer”, became interested in the case. The spokesman of the organization labeled such a price policy as discriminatory. Case studies confirmed the reproaches. Women have to pay much more for the exact the same service than men. The explanations of the hairdressers were not convincing. “That’s tradition”, said one, and another hairdresser tried to explain

Friday, April 16, 2010

Buying power in Austria

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The people from Austrias federal state Styria have a low buying power, reports Austrias Broadcasting Corporation “ORF”. Styria is on the second last rank. Only the Eastern province Burgenland has a lower buying power.

Austrias highest buying power can be found in Vienna, Salzburg and Vorarlberg. Every year the average Viennese has 20.987 Euro at hand to fund his wishes. The average Styrian only 18.300 Euro.

Interesting also the comparison with other countries. Austria is in the European top group. The average Austrian has more money to spend as the average Italian or German. Only Luxembourg, Ireland, and Netherlands have

Thursday, April 15, 2010

14-year-old Viennese girl killed her own mother

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A 14-year-old girl from Vienna killed her mother by several stabs with a knife in the back, because she was not allowed to connect to the internet. The victim was found already dead some hours later by her 12-year-old son and the husband. The girl escaped right after her deed, and delivered herself up to the police at the end of the day.

Now the young girl might have to spend her next 10 years in prison. Austrian medias reports that the relationship between mother and daughter was stretched to breaking point and very difficult.


The 14-year-old confirmed that she

Friday, April 9, 2010

13-year-old boy threatens HC Strache with death

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Freedom party leader Heinz Christian Strache is threatend with death by a 13-year-old boy from Vienna in a Youtube music video. The young boy claims that he is going to force Strache to commit suicide.

Strache is labeled as scum, nazi, racist, xenophobe, and clown in that video. The Freedom party is upset about such abusive and violent workmanship and informed the secret service. The backers should be found. The Freedom party suspects the Socialdemocrats behind the video. It was also linked at Socialdemocrat websites. The artist himself is incapable of crime. He is too young to be held accountable.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Aversion against post boxes in Tirol

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The strong aversion of a 14-year-old lad against post boxes was the reason of several bomb attacks in a small village in the province of Tirol. Many of the post boxes in the village were destroyed. Now the young man was caught by the police. The property damage is tremendous.

The blasts of his assaults were severe. Post boxes were ripped out of their anchorage and flew metres high through the air. The 14-year-old used illegal dynamite for his harmful acts. Police told it was just a fortunate coincidence that nobody was hurt or killed.

A therapy for trying to

Friday, April 2, 2010

Leisure activities of Austrians: television more important as sex

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A new study revealed that Austrians prefer to watch television or to visit a restaurant than having sex. Only 55 percent said that sex is part of their leisure activities. Spending time with the family is the most important activity for Austrians (79 percent).

The second most popular activity in Austria is spending time with friends (78 percent). Followed by watching television (66 percent) and visiting a restaurant (57 percent). Sex is only the 5th popular activity by 55 percent.

The federal state with the biggest sexual activity is Styria. People from the province of Upper Austria are true sexless persons.