Austrians enjoy eating pork

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

HC Strache: “Money for Greece is purest lunacy”

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.

Families in Austria

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

Young German wife abandons her husband on motorway rest area

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

Impressing victory for Heinz Fischer

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

Bouncer received silver badge of honour in Vienna

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

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

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