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BUREAUCRACY
Germany has given cash handouts to illegal migrants it is deporting to Afghanistan.
ELECTIONS
Less than four weeks before the general election on September 29, Austria’s Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) is in crisis mode.
ELECTIONS
FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl presented the programme at an event in Vienna under the headline: Fortress Austria. Fortress of Freedom.
FINANCE
Three concerts by pop star Taylor Swift in Vienna have been abruptly canceled following a police raid on youths suspected of planning a terrorist attack at one of the events.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
The Austrian climate activists organisation Last Generation has announced it will disband over a lack of success.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary-General of the European Union’s External Action Service (EEAS), has been criticised after he posed for a group photo together with representatives…
BUREAUCRACY
Karoline Edtstadler, Austrian Minister for the EU and the Constitution, has said she wants to adapt the Geneva Convention to the Status of Refugees of 1951 to fight rising…
CULTURE WAR ELECTIONS
German publishing house Ullstein Buchverlage has sparked outrage by deciding against a reprint of the sold-out German translation of Hillbilly Elegy, the 2016 autobiography…
CORRUPTION EU BUBBLE
The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has filed a civil suit for defamation against Manfred Weber, President of the European People’s Party (EPP).