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UNESCO Commission announced this week that the W\u00fcrstelstand has been added to the national list of intangible<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//hub//cultures/"> <\/a>cultural<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//hub//cultures/"> <\/a>heritage, joining the city\u2019s beloved wine taverns (\u201cHeurigen\u201d) and its famous <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//03//24//exploring-vienna-s-cafes-a-look-at-coffee-culture-in-austria-s-capital/">coffee house culture<\/strong><\/a>, which were listed in 2019 and 2011, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the W\u00fcrstelstand has been a gathering point for locals and tourists alike, where the street sweeper, the office manager, the celebrity, and the curious traveler converge over a shared love of Vienna\u2019s signature snacks. The stands, known for their casual yet welcoming atmosphere, have become a symbol of the city's diverse social fabric.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.666015625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//88//17//28//808x539_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg/" alt=\"A traditional sausage stand \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/640x426_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/828x551_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1080x719_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1200x799_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1920x1279_cmsv2_1320cb51-34fd-55be-bf5a-fdde4d3312c7-8881728.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A traditional sausage stand <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Among the most popular offerings at the W\u00fcrstelstand are the \u201cHaasse,\u201d a coarse boiled sausage, and the \u201cK\u00e4sekrainer,\u201d a smoked sausage stuffed with cheese that melts and oozes out when bitten into, often affectionately referred to as the \u201cEitrige\u201d or \u201csuppurating sausage.\u201d There\u2019s also the spicy \u201cOaschpfeiferl,\u201d a pepperoni-style sausage, and the \u201cKrokod\u00fc,\u201d a gherkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSausage stands have a long history in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//20//we-drive-five-times-around-the-world-everyday-what-to-know-about-viennas-public-transport/">Vienna,/u201d said Josef Bitzinger, whose Bitzinger W\u00fcrstelstand is set next to the Albertina museum, just behind the Vienna State Opera.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//88//17//28//808x539_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg/" alt=\"Customers line up at a W\u00fcrstelstand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1920x1281_cmsv2_86b6c000-f1bc-5e0c-bdf3-3b3e1384bacd-8881728.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Customers line up at a W\u00fcrstelstand<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cOriginally it was just a bucket with hot water in which the sausages used to swim,\u201d he said. They were sold from \u201csmall carriages drawn by dogs and bigger ones drawn by horses, later by a VW bus or a tractor to their spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the W\u00fcrstelstand is more than just a place to grab a bite. It\u2019s a cultural institution, with a long history dating back to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2021//06//10//meet-the-emperor-s-grandson-who-who-wants-to-patch-up-hungary-s-relationship-with-france/">Austro-Hungarian Empire<\/strong><\/a>. The tradition of street-side sausage stands began with former soldiers who set up mobile cookshops after World War I to earn a living. The city\u2019s longest-running stand, W\u00fcrstelstand Leo, has been serving <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//09//05//currywurst-the-german-street-food-favourite-returns-to-volkswagens-central-canteen/">sausages since 1928.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//88//17//28//808x539_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg/" alt=\"The W\u00fcrstelstand has a long history dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1920x1281_cmsv2_e87c0e6d-45e0-5a23-95f4-09708bece6f8-8881728.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The W\u00fcrstelstand has a long history dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The W\u00fcrstelstand became even more entrenched in Viennese culture in 1969, when regulations were changed to allow for permanent stalls. This shift led to the invention of the K\u00e4sekrainer, which, Bitzinger said, is \u201calready a classic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UNESCO designation \u201chonours the tradition, the hospitality and the diversity of our city,\u201d Mayor Michael Ludwig said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis title is a recognition for all those Viennese who, with their warmth and their charm, make the sausage stands more than just a snack place \u2013 a meeting place where joie de vivre and culture come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//88//17//28//808x539_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg/" alt=\" The sausage stands have become symbolic of Vienna's diverse social fabric.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/1920x1281_cmsv2_61c5efdd-d0c9-5d1b-9230-85b72783caf8-8881728.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\"> The sausage stands have become symbolic of Vienna's diverse social fabric.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have been fighting a long time for this,\u201d Bitzinger said of the new UNESCO designation, underlining the importance of the W\u00fcrstelstand as \u201ca form of gastronomy everybody can afford\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere the general director and, during the opera ball, a celebrity stands next to a worker and the street sweeper who just finished cleaning the street,\u201d he explained, \u201cThat unites people.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732891399,"updatedAt":1733042741,"publishedAt":1733033034,"firstPublishedAt":1733033034,"lastPublishedAt":1733033048,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/17\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_dcb8418d-d6dc-52c9-a933-5a4b9aafda31-8881728.jpg","altText":"A vendor serves a hot dog at a traditional sausage stand ","caption":"A vendor serves a hot dog at a traditional sausage stand ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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But what about the climate-conscious farmers who had hoped that the \"Green Deal\" would benefit them, their land and the environment? An investigation by our reporter Hans von der Brelie in Auersthal, a small village in the far-eastern reaches of the Republic of Austria.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nHerbert Zetner gets up at four a.m. every day. It's still pitch dark outside. But like many organic farmers, Zetner must juggle two jobs. He works as an IT expert at a bank in Vienna until the early afternoon. Then he changes over from his office chair to the driver seat of his tractor. In the Marchfeld, a large alluvial plain near the Austrian capital, on this November day he is sowing gold-of-pleasure, also known as camelina or false flax.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe Marchfeld region is considered the \"granary of Austria\" but driving through the pretty villages with their imperial yellow house facades, you notice that many of the fields are quite narrow and they are laid out next to each other like different coloured hand towels. This is strip cropping. With this method organic farmers are striving to heal the wounds that former monocultures with their huge fields have inflicted on the landscape.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nConventional agriculture wreaked havoc on the Marchfeld: Over-fertilisation, overexploitation of groundwater reserves and a dearth of hedgerows have led to a massive loss of species and soil erosion, extending to desertification. The plain overheated, it dried out \u2013 and in order to continue supplying Vienna with vegetables, many farmers promptly resorted to spraying toxic substances and artificial fertilisers.\u00a0\n\nHowever, a change in thinking is now manifest, even in the Zetner family. \"I used to spray myself with poison, I was constantly ill,\" says Herbert. When his father passed away, Herbert and his brother took over the farm and transitioned to organic farming. Instead of fungicides and chemical fertilisers, Zetner uses a home-made hay tea made from fermented grasses.\n\nOrganic farming often means more work, says Zetner: \"Previously, with conventional farming, we needed close to 500 hours for our 74 hectares of fields and forest. Now, with regenerative agriculture, we need 1500 hours. This means we have three times the effort!\". Nevertheless, Herbert seems happy with himself and the world. \"Organic used to be considered exotic, but people now realise that organic is normal,\" he sums up.\u202f\n\nHerbert grows 24 different crops. Gold-of-pleasure (camelina), oats, spelt, barley, rye, chickpeas, caraway seeds, Turkish melissa (lemon balm) ... the list is long! The part-time farmer practises regenerative agriculture and has been officially certified as an organic farmer for five years.\n\nAn EU-wide research project is currently underway to find out how CO2 from the air can be better captured in the soil. Carbon capture cropping slows down climate change; and farmers, including Herbert Zetner, are happy about fertile humus. He proudly shows me a small plant that he has pulled up out of the loose soil: \"Here you can see the soil clinging to the roots. This means a super interaction of the plant with the soil. The humus is well penetrated by the roots and finely crumbled. That\u2019s what I like!\u201d\u00a0\n\nHumus formation works with strip cropping and catch cropping (several crops are cultivated with and next to each other); a counter-model to monocultures and giant fields. To put the brakes on climate change and the extinction of species, the European Commission had planned to require all farmers to leave four per cent of their land fallow. However, protests by conventional farmers led to this being overturned this spring (2024).\u202fConsequently, my question to Zetner: \"Fallow land, crop rotation and flower strips \u2013 should these be mandatory in the European Union or voluntary?\" As he steers the seed drill over the field, Herbert Zetner says in his deliberate, thoughtful tone: \"I think it should be mandatory.\u201d\u00a0\n\nToday Herbert is sowing the winter seed. His fields should always be green, regardless of the season. This is also good for the CO2 balance. He wants more than fine words from the EU, he also wants a higher organic premium and financial compensation for his many hours of organic labour: \"Farmers who pay attention to humus formation want to do something for nature. This should also be financially worthwhile. I capture CO2! I do a lot of good things! This should be recognised by the EU!\u201d\u00a0\n\nInternational authorities in the field of biodiversity research, such as Professor Franz Essl from the University of Vienna, agree. To slow down climate change the extinction of species, soil erosion and desertification, agriculture would have to change its cultivation methods. This requires financial incentives, says Essl: \"Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is something agriculture can do. If the soil is cultivated differently, more humus remains in the soil and this should be of greater value to society than it has been in the past.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThe global expert's recommendations for European agricultural policy are clear: Rewetting drained wetlands, fallow land management (i.e. regularly setting aside some fields), windbreak hedges, building up humus. etc. The EU Commission should not cave in to the powerful big farmer lobby, \"but rather they should stay on track\", says Essl.\u00a0\n\nIn a recently published special report, the European Court of Auditors also scrutinised the EU's previous \"action plans\" to promote organic farming and severely reprimanded the European Commission: An overall strategy is lacking. Money is still being distributed on the basis of the watering pot principle. 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But like many organic farmers, Zetner must juggle two jobs. He works as an IT expert at a bank in Vienna until the early afternoon. Then he changes over from his office chair to the driver seat of his tractor. In the Marchfeld, a large alluvial plain near the Austrian capital, on this November day he is sowing gold-of-pleasure, also known as camelina or false flax.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Marchfeld region is considered the \"granary of Austria\" but driving through the pretty villages with their imperial yellow house facades, you notice that many of the fields are quite narrow and they are laid out next to each other like different coloured hand towels. This is strip cropping. With this method organic farmers are striving to heal the wounds that former monocultures with their huge fields have inflicted on the landscape.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conventional agriculture wreaked havoc on the Marchfeld: Over-fertilisation, overexploitation of groundwater reserves and a dearth of hedgerows have led to a massive loss of species and soil erosion, extending to desertification. The plain overheated, it dried out \u2013 and in order to continue supplying Vienna with vegetables, many farmers promptly resorted to spraying toxic substances and artificial fertilisers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, a change in thinking is now manifest, even in the Zetner family. \"I used to spray myself with poison, I was constantly ill,\" says Herbert. When his father passed away, Herbert and his brother took over the farm and transitioned to organic farming. Instead of fungicides and chemical fertilisers, Zetner uses a home-made hay tea made from fermented grasses.<\/p>\n<p>Organic farming often means more work, says Zetner: \"Previously, with conventional farming, we needed close to 500 hours for our 74 hectares of fields and forest. Now, with regenerative agriculture, we need 1500 hours. This means we have three times the effort!\". Nevertheless, Herbert seems happy with himself and the world. \"Organic used to be considered exotic, but people now realise that organic is normal,\" he sums up.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Herbert grows 24 different crops. Gold-of-pleasure (camelina), oats, spelt, barley, rye, chickpeas, caraway seeds, Turkish melissa (lemon balm) ... the list is long! The part-time farmer practises regenerative agriculture and has been officially certified as an organic farmer for five years.<\/p>\n<p>An EU-wide research project is currently underway to find out how CO2 from the air can be better captured in the soil. Carbon capture cropping slows down climate change; and farmers, including Herbert Zetner, are happy about fertile humus. He proudly shows me a small plant that he has pulled up out of the loose soil: \"Here you can see the soil clinging to the roots. This means a super interaction of the plant with the soil. The humus is well penetrated by the roots and finely crumbled. That\u2019s what I like!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Humus formation works with strip cropping and catch cropping (several crops are cultivated with and next to each other); a counter-model to monocultures and giant fields. To put the brakes on climate change and the extinction of species, the European Commission had planned to require all farmers to leave four per cent of their land fallow. However, protests by conventional farmers led to this being overturned this spring (2024).\u202fConsequently, my question to Zetner: \"Fallow land, crop rotation and flower strips \u2013 should these be mandatory in the European Union or voluntary?\" As he steers the seed drill over the field, Herbert Zetner says in his deliberate, thoughtful tone: \"I think it should be mandatory.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today Herbert is sowing the winter seed. His fields should always be green, regardless of the season. This is also good for the CO2 balance. He wants more than fine words from the EU, he also wants a higher organic premium and financial compensation for his many hours of organic labour: \"Farmers who pay attention to humus formation want to do something for nature. This should also be financially worthwhile. I capture CO2! I do a lot of good things! This should be recognised by the EU!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>International authorities in the field of biodiversity research, such as Professor Franz Essl from the University of Vienna, agree. To slow down climate change the extinction of species, soil erosion and desertification, agriculture would have to change its cultivation methods. This requires financial incentives, says Essl: \"Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is something agriculture can do. 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Director-General Rafael Grossi held meetings in Tehran with the Iranian government in an attempt to improve cooperation. \n\nA confidential report seen by The Associated Press showed that Iran defied international pressure to rein in its nuclear programme, and increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to levels needed to make a bomb. \n\nUranium, a naturally occurring radioactive element, has to be enriched \"in order to produce fuel for certain types of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons,\" the UN watchdog says. Under the IAEA's definition, one atomic weapon can be created when 42 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% are further enriched to 90%.\n\nIAEA nations will discuss at the summit whether to vote on a resolution against Iran. The move would be an embarrassment for Tehran's leaders, and a boost for supporters of taking a tough stance against Iran.\n\nSeveral media outlets report that two confidential reports by the UN watchdog show that Iran offered not to expand its uranium which had been enriched to up to 60% purity, on the conditional offer that Western powers drop their push for the resolution against Iran. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has begun a three-day board meeting in Vienna to discuss Iran's nuclear programme. <\/p>\n<p>The summit comes just days after Director-General Rafael Grossi held meetings in Tehran with the Iranian government in an attempt to improve cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>A confidential report seen by The Associated Press showed that Iran defied international pressure to rein in its nuclear programme, and increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to levels needed to make a bomb. <\/p>\n<p>Uranium, a naturally occurring radioactive element, has to be enriched \"in order to produce fuel for certain types of nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons,\" the UN watchdog says. Under the IAEA's definition, one atomic weapon can be created when 42 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% are further enriched to 90%.<\/p>\n<p>IAEA nations will discuss at the summit whether to vote on a resolution against Iran. The move would be an embarrassment for Tehran's leaders, and a boost for supporters of taking a tough stance against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Several media outlets report that two confidential reports by the UN watchdog show that Iran offered not to expand its uranium which had been enriched to up to 60% purity, on the conditional offer that Western powers drop their push for the resolution against Iran. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732105627,"updatedAt":1732117145,"publishedAt":1732116683,"firstPublishedAt":1732116683,"lastPublishedAt":1732116683,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/37\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a19f866d-8a7c-5e40-8eb7-3d3c68fd81e0-8863726.jpg","altText":"The flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency flies in front of its headquarters during an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 6, 2023. 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Not even from the Russian president. We will not be brought to our knees by Putin's government, by Putin himself, but have taken precautions to ensure that we can defend ourselves for precisely this reason,\" he said in Vienna.\n\nOMV said on Wednesday it has sufficient stocks to provide gas to its customers in case of a potential disruption by Gazprom, and said storage in Austria was at more than 90%. \n\nRussia cut off most natural gas supplies to Europe in 2022, citing disputes over payment in roubles, a move European leaders described as energy blackmail over their support for Ukraine against Russia\u2019s invasion. \n\nEuropean governments had to scramble to line up alternative supplies at higher prices, much of it liquefied natural gas brought by ship from the U.S. and Qatar.\n\nEU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted on X that \"Once again Putin is using energy as a weapon.\"\n\nAustria gets the bulk of its natural gas from Russia, as much as 98% in December last year, according to Energy Minister Lenore Gewessler.\n\nUkraine has said it will not extend the transit agreement with Gazprom beyond January 2025 in a bid to choke off a source of income that Kyiv says Russia uses to fund its war.\n\nCold War supplies\n\nAustrian gas imports from Russia date back to the Cold War. Austria was one of the first Western countries to import gas from the then Soviet Union in 1968 with the Baumgarten hub near the border with Slovakia handling deliveries via Ukraine.\n\nBut that relationship was due to come to an end early next year anyway with the expiration of the contract between Gazprom and OMV.\n\nIn the face of rising uncertainty around Russian gas supplies to Europe, Austria has also increased efforts to secure supply from other countries, such as Turkey and Norway.\n\n\"In terms of security of supply, it's not really a problem. We have enough gas in storage and there are enough other gas sources. This means that there will be no shortage, even if the winter gets very cold. But we are already seeing a price consequence,\" said Walter Boltz, a former board member of Austria\u2019s electricity and natural gas markets regulator, E-Control.\n\nPrior to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia supplied the EU with around 40% of its gas needs.\n\nDespite a huge drop in supply since the Kremlin began its all-out war on Ukraine, the EU still relies on Russia for almost a fifth of its gas supplies and Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson demurred when asked whether the bloc was ready to include it in an ever expanding sanctions regime.\n\n\"We remain fully committed to completing the phase out of Russian gas, which can be done without challenging Europe's energy security of supply,\" Simson told reporters in Brussels last week as she unveiled the annual State of the EU Energy Union report.\n\nIt recognises that although consumption of Russian gas has fallen dramatically from the 150 billion cubic metres, or 45% of all imports before the invasion, the country still relied on Russia for 18% of imports in the eight months to August \u2013 slightly more than total LNG imports from the US, meaning Russia is still Europe's second largest supplier after Norway.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Russia's action came after OMV said it would stop paying Gazprom to offset a 230 million-euro arbitration award that it won from the International Chamber of Commerce over an previous cut-off of gas.<\/p>\n<p>OMV, which provides most households with their gas, said in an email that no gas delivery was made from Gazprom after 6 a.m. on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>However Russian gas was still arriving in Austria on Saturday, albeit at a reduced level of about 20 percent, Handelsblatt quoted <\/p>\n<p>The cut-off came after Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer on Friday held a hastily called news conference to reassure Austria that there was a secure supply of alternative fuel for this winter.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will not be blackmailed by anyone. Not even from the Russian president. We will not be brought to our knees by Putin's government, by Putin himself, but have taken precautions to ensure that we can defend ourselves for precisely this reason,\" he said in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>OMV said on Wednesday it has sufficient stocks to provide gas to its customers in case of a potential disruption by Gazprom, and said storage in Austria was at more than 90%. <\/p>\n<p>Russia cut off most natural gas supplies to Europe in 2022, citing disputes over payment in roubles, a move European leaders described as energy blackmail over their support for Ukraine against Russia\u2019s invasion. <\/p>\n<p>European governments had to scramble to line up alternative supplies at higher prices, much of it liquefied natural gas brought by ship from the U.S. and Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen posted on X that \"Once again Putin is using energy as a weapon.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1857782942799479109\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Austria gets the bulk of its natural gas from Russia, as much as 98% in December last year, according to Energy Minister Lenore Gewessler.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has said it will not extend the transit agreement with Gazprom beyond January 2025 in a bid to choke off a source of income that Kyiv says Russia uses to fund its war.<\/p>\n<h2>Cold War supplies<\/h2><p>Austrian gas imports from Russia date back to the Cold War. Austria was one of the first Western countries to import gas from the then Soviet Union in 1968 with the Baumgarten hub near the border with Slovakia handling deliveries via Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But that relationship was due to come to an end early next year anyway with the expiration of the contract between Gazprom and OMV.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of rising uncertainty around Russian gas supplies to Europe, Austria has also increased efforts to secure supply from other countries, such as Turkey and Norway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.751004016064257\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//85//51//44//808x608_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg/" alt=\"A worker closes a gate at the Central European Gas Hub in Baumgarten near the Austrian-Slovakian border, 7 January, 2009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/384x288_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/640x481_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/750x563_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/828x622_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1080x811_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1200x901_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1920x1442_cmsv2_5b9079f2-173d-59b5-ad68-bf27ae9bebfe-8855144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A worker closes a gate at the Central European Gas Hub in Baumgarten near the Austrian-Slovakian border, 7 January, 2009<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">RONALD ZAK\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"In terms of security of supply, it's not really a problem. We have enough gas in storage and there are enough other gas sources. This means that there will be no shortage, even if the winter gets very cold. But we are already seeing a price consequence,\" said Walter Boltz, a former board member of Austria\u2019s electricity and natural gas markets regulator, E-Control.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia supplied the EU with around 40% of its gas needs.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a huge drop in supply since the Kremlin began its all-out war on Ukraine, the EU still relies on Russia for almost a fifth of its gas supplies and Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson demurred when asked whether the bloc was ready to include it in an ever expanding sanctions regime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666071428571428\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//85//51//44//808x539_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg/" alt=\"A view of the business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Gazprom in St. Petersburg, 27 April, 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/384x256_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/640x427_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/750x500_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/828x552_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1080x720_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1200x800_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5c80c4a4-c627-5743-b019-14e89c173c90-8855144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A view of the business tower Lakhta Centre, the headquarters of Gazprom in St. Petersburg, 27 April, 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Dmitri Lovetsky\/Copyright 2022 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We remain fully committed to completing the phase out of Russian gas, which can be done without challenging Europe's energy security of supply,\" Simson told reporters in Brussels last week as she unveiled the annual <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////energy.ec.europa.eu//document//download//bd3e3460-2406-47a1-aa2e-c0a0ba52a75a_en?filename=State%20of%20the%20Energy%20Union%20Report%202024.pdf\%22>State of the EU Energy Union report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It recognises that although consumption of Russian gas has fallen dramatically from the 150 billion cubic metres, or 45% of all imports before the invasion, the country still relied on Russia for 18% of imports in the eight months to August \u2013 slightly more than total LNG imports from the US, meaning Russia is still Europe's second largest supplier after Norway.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731702519,"updatedAt":1732210360,"publishedAt":1731748229,"firstPublishedAt":1731748229,"lastPublishedAt":1732210337,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/51\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ba9d8aa1-30c9-54fa-9c96-732f0fa99c62-8855144.jpg","altText":"A Russian construction worker speaks on a mobile phone during a ceremony marking the start of Nord Stream pipeline construction in Portovaya Bay, 9 April, 2010","caption":"A Russian construction worker speaks on a mobile phone during a ceremony marking the start of Nord Stream pipeline construction in Portovaya Bay, 9 April, 2010","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Dmitry Lovetsky\/Copyright 2019 The AP. 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Russian gas supplies to Austria at risk amid OMV arbitral win","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Gas prices jump as Gazprom says it is halting deliveries to Austria","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Gas prices jump as Gazprom says it is halting deliveries to Austria","titleListing2":"Gas prices jump as Gazprom says it is halting deliveries to Austria","leadin":"Gazprom Export has announced that it will be halting gas supplies to Austria, following the latter's biggest state-owned fossil fuel company, OMV, winning an arbitral award against it.","summary":"Gazprom Export has announced that it will be halting gas supplies to Austria, following the latter's biggest state-owned fossil fuel company, OMV, winning an arbitral award against it.","keySentence":"","url":"gas-prices-jump-as-gazprom-says-it-is-halting-deliveries-to-austria","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2024\/11\/15\/gas-prices-jump-as-gazprom-says-it-is-halting-deliveries-to-austria","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Gazprom Export has revealed that it would be stopping gas supplies to Austria after over 50 years, from 16 November. This follows Austria\u2019s biggest fossil-fuel company, state-owned OMV, recently bagging an arbitral award against Gazprom Export, for its irregular German gas supplies, which stopped entirely back in September 2022.\u00a0\n\nDutch TTF gas prices fell 0.21% on Tuesday afternoon, but jumped 10.34% this week, as energy markets experienced increased volatility.\u00a0\n\nOMV has revealed that it is planning on offsetting this arbitral award against payments that it owes to Gazprom Export, under its Austria gas supply contract, by essentially withholding the payments. Gazprom Export is a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s gas company Gazprom.\u00a0\n\nThis arbitral award was under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), with the arbitration request having been raised by the OMV Gas Marketing and Trading GmbH (OGMT), back in January 2023.\u00a0\n\nOMV said in a press release on the company\u2019s website: \u201cOMV has taken the decision to recover awarded damages amounting to \u20ac230 million plus interest and costs, which positively contributes to balancing respective financial losses incurred in 2022.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe company takes the necessary next steps to enforce the arbitral award with immediate effect. OGMT confirms off-setting its claims against invoices under the Austrian gas supply contract with Gazprom Export to obtain compensation for its awarded damage claims.\u201d\n\nThe amount being off-set is expected to go towards boosting OMV\u2019s operating cashflow results, as well as its clean carbon capture and storage figures.\u00a0\n\nFollowing the Russia-Ukraine war, the risk of continuing to do business with Russian oil and gas companies such as Gazprom and Lukoil, amongst several others, has been significantly higher.\u00a0\n\nAustria has also been considerably more dependent on Russian gas than other European countries such as Germany and the UK in the last few years. Other countries such as Slovakia and Hungary have also been relatively more reliant on Russian gas, despite the war.\u00a0\n\nHowever, in the face of this rising uncertainty around Russian gas supplies, the country has made more efforts to increase its ties with other suppliers, such as Turkey and Norway. It has also used its large gas storage facilities to make sure that even if Russia does cut off gas supplies this winter, its citizens would be minimally impacted.\u00a0\n\nAustria has also continued to invest in its pipeline capacity for the same, while OMV has also confirmed that the country\u2019s gas storage is currently over 90% full.\u00a0\n\nSPP, Slovakia\u2019s biggest energy supplier, has also tied up with Azerbaijan to buy natural gas in a short-term pilot contract.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Gazprom Export has revealed that it would be stopping gas supplies to Austria after over 50 years, from 16 November. This follows Austria\u2019s biggest fossil-fuel company, state-owned OMV, recently bagging an arbitral award against Gazprom Export, for its irregular German gas supplies, which stopped entirely back in September 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dutch TTF gas prices fell 0.21% on Tuesday afternoon, but jumped 10.34% this week, as energy markets experienced increased volatility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OMV has revealed that it is planning on offsetting this arbitral award against payments that it owes to Gazprom Export, under its Austria gas supply contract, by essentially withholding the payments. Gazprom Export is a subsidiary of Russia\u2019s gas company Gazprom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8854080\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//11//15//cyprus-in-talks-with-gulf-energy-companies-over-natural-gas-licences/">Cyprus in talks with Gulf energy companies over natural gas licences<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This arbitral award was under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), with the arbitration request having been raised by the OMV Gas Marketing and Trading GmbH (OGMT), back in January 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OMV said in a press release on the company\u2019s website: \u201cOMV has taken the decision to recover awarded damages amounting to \u20ac230 million plus interest and costs, which positively contributes to balancing respective financial losses incurred in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company takes the necessary next steps to enforce the arbitral award with immediate effect. OGMT confirms off-setting its claims against invoices under the Austrian gas supply contract with Gazprom Export to obtain compensation for its awarded damage claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The amount being off-set is expected to go towards boosting OMV\u2019s operating cashflow results, as well as its clean carbon capture and storage figures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the Russia-Ukraine war, the risk of continuing to do business with Russian oil and gas companies such as Gazprom and Lukoil, amongst several others, has been significantly higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austria has also been considerably more dependent on Russian gas than other European countries such as Germany and the UK in the last few years. Other countries such as Slovakia and Hungary have also been relatively more reliant on Russian gas, despite the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in the face of this rising uncertainty around Russian gas supplies, the country has made more efforts to increase its ties with other suppliers, such as Turkey and Norway. It has also used its large gas storage facilities to make sure that even if Russia does cut off gas supplies this winter, its citizens would be minimally impacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austria has also continued to invest in its pipeline capacity for the same, while OMV has also confirmed that the country\u2019s gas storage is currently over 90% full.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SPP, Slovakia\u2019s biggest energy supplier, has also tied up with Azerbaijan to buy natural gas in a short-term pilot contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731684841,"updatedAt":1731688237,"publishedAt":1731688047,"firstPublishedAt":1731688047,"lastPublishedAt":1731688047,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/85\/47\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b9ffa328-f5a3-5f0a-8c6d-bd78f5f73186-8854704.jpg","altText":"The town of Halstatt, Austria at twilight","caption":"The town of Halstatt, Austria at 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SCHENGEN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Austria may lift veto preventing Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Austria may lift veto preventing Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen","titleListing2":"Austria may lift veto preventing Romania and Bulgaria joining Schengen","leadin":"Austria's Interior Minister has hinted that Austria could lift its veto on full Schengen area membership for Romania and Bulgaria after improvements in border protection.","summary":"Austria's Interior Minister has hinted that Austria could lift its veto on full Schengen area membership for Romania and Bulgaria after improvements in border protection.","keySentence":"","url":"austria-may-lift-veto-preventing-romania-and-bulgaria-joining-schengen","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/11\/09\/austria-may-lift-veto-preventing-romania-and-bulgaria-joining-schengen","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"It follows calls from Austria's designated EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, for both countries to become full members.\n\nFor the past two years Austria has been blocking the full admission of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen area which guarantees the free movement of people and goods inside the Europe Union. \n\nThe argument at the time was that too many refugees were reaching Austria via the Western Balkans route. In the previous year, the rules were then relaxed somewhat and free entry and exit by air and sea was made possible. \n\nThe situation has since improved further, according to the Ministry of the Interior. \n\nSpeaking at a hearing in the EU parliament, Karner said: \"We can now see that the numbers of illegal migration via these countries in particular have fallen massively. This means that we are on the right path, but have not yet reached the end of the road.\"\n\nHe added that Austria had been able to achieve significant improvements in border protection and returns as a result of the veto, but the aim was to push illegal migration towards zero.\n\nRomania MEP Victor Negrescu recently announced that Romania is on the 'final stretch' towards Schengen membership, outlining three possible scenarios: a decision made this year, a longer-term negotiation with the new European Commission and possibly delays as a result of the political situation in Bulgaria.\n\nMeanwhile, Romania's Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, has said he believes Romania could fully enter the Schengen area by spring 2025, with a decision made before the second round of presidential elections on 8 December.\n\nCiolacu indicated that the process could be finalised by December, with implementation set to begin in March next year. This change would enable Romanians to cross EU land borders without checks by Easter 2025.\n\nThe talks on Schengen enlargement are making \"good progress\", as Austria's designated EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, recently reported at his hearing in the EU Parliament. An agreement therefore seems to be in sight.\n\nThe breakthrough could come at a meeting with both countries in Hungary on 22 November.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>It follows calls from Austria's designated EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, for both countries to become full members.<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years Austria has been blocking the full admission of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen area which guarantees the free movement of people and goods inside the Europe Union. <\/p>\n<p>The argument at the time was that too many refugees were reaching Austria via the Western Balkans route. In the previous year, the rules were then relaxed somewhat and free entry and exit by air and sea was made possible. <\/p>\n<p>The situation has since improved further, according to the Ministry of the Interior. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a hearing in the EU parliament, Karner said: \"We can now see that the numbers of illegal migration via these countries in particular have fallen massively. This means that we are on the right path, but have not yet reached the end of the road.\"<\/p>\n<p>He added that Austria had been able to achieve significant improvements in border protection and returns as a result of the veto, but the aim was to push illegal migration towards zero.<\/p>\n<p>Romania MEP Victor Negrescu recently announced that Romania is on the 'final stretch' towards Schengen membership, outlining three possible scenarios: a decision made this year, a longer-term negotiation with the new European Commission and possibly delays as a result of the political situation in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667805878332194\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//17//74//808x539_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg/" alt=\"Romania Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu meets Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/17\/74\/1920x1280_cmsv2_502d2e27-8cf1-5b19-b38b-f4151d32a1a2-8841774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Romania Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu meets Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Roberto Monaldo\/LaPresse<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Romania's Prime Minister, Marcel Ciolacu, has said he believes Romania could fully enter the Schengen area by spring 2025, with a decision made before the second round of presidential elections on 8 December.<\/p>\n<p>Ciolacu indicated that the process could be finalised by December, with implementation set to begin in March next year. This change would enable Romanians to cross EU land borders without checks by Easter 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The talks on Schengen enlargement are making \"good progress\", as Austria's designated EU Commissioner for Migration, Magnus Brunner, recently reported at his hearing in the EU Parliament. An agreement therefore seems to be in sight.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough could come at a meeting with both countries in Hungary on 22 November.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8812448,8718116,8719052,8586088\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//07//29//romania-is-now-in-the-schengen-zone-heres-why-you-should-visit-this-year/">Romania is now in the Schengen Zone. Here\u2019s why you should visit this year<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//11//is-the-border-free-schengen-area-about-to-unravel/">Is the border-free Schengen Area about to unravel?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//10//which-other-schengen-countries-have-border-checks-in-place/">Which other Schengen countries have border checks in place?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//10//24//france-ramps-up-schengen-border-checks-how-will-travellers-be-affected/">France ramps up Schengen border checks. 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However, nothing was initially revealed about the content of their conversation.\n\nRosenkranz said the meeting had been arranged before he took office.\n\nOther Austrian parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, had resisted Orb\u00e1n\u2019s visit. Green party parliamentary leader Sigrid Maurer said the FP\u00d6 views Orb\u00e1n as a role model, which should be considered \"an absolute warning signal.\u201d\u00a0\n\nFP\u00d6 finished first in the recent Austrian parliamentary elections, garnering 29.2% of the vote in the country's first far-right election win since World War II. \n\nExperts say the party managed to tap into Austrian anxiety on housing and healthcare, as well as often successfully blaming migration for a host of other issues.\u00a0\n\nAs is customary within Austria, the group with the highest number of votes appoints the President of Parliament \u2013 hence Rosenkranz being elected to the second-highest state office in the country last week.\u00a0\n\nOrb\u00e1n will reportedly not meet with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer during the visit. \n\nFar-right alliance in Europe\u00a0\n\nAustria\u2019s Freedom Party and Orb\u00e1n\u2019s Fidesz party both belong to the new European far-right group Patriots for Europe. \u00a0\n\nThe party shares a deep aversion to the Green Deal, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen\u2019s flagship initiative to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, and have challenged the project of European integration as well as the power granted to EU institutions.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nPatriots for Europe are also opposed to providing Ukraine with military equipment, question the efficiency of Western sanctions against Moscow and want to maintain close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government.\u00a0\n\nIt is the third-largest group in the European Parliament, boasting dozens of MEPs from countries like France, Italy and the Netherlands.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Despite criticism from other political parties, Austria\u2019s newly elected parliament president, Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n in Vienna as his first official guest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The controversial visit took place in the Austrian parliament\u2019s reception room, with the entire leadership of the FP\u00d6, including leader Herbert Kickl, reportedly in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting concluded, Orb\u00e1n had a separate, private meeting with Kickl. However, nothing was initially revealed about the content of their conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenkranz said the meeting had been arranged before he took office.<\/p>\n<p>Other Austrian parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, had resisted Orb\u00e1n\u2019s visit. Green party parliamentary leader Sigrid Maurer said the FP\u00d6 views Orb\u00e1n as a role model, which should be considered \"an absolute warning signal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1851946216658977085\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FP\u00d6 finished first in the recent Austrian parliamentary elections, garnering <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//30//austrias-freedom-party-secures-first-far-right-election-win-since-world-war-ii/">29.2% of the vote in the country's first far-right election win since World War II. <\/p>\n<p><a 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Instead, incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer is to form the new #government.","leadin":"FP\u00d6's controversial leader Hebert Kickl has \"no coalition partners\" according to reports from Vienna, with incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer asked to form the new government instead.","summary":"FP\u00d6's controversial leader Hebert Kickl has \"no coalition partners\" according to reports from Vienna, with incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer asked to form the new government instead.","keySentence":"","url":"austrian-president-asks-conservative-nehammer-to-form-government-as-fpo-fails-to-find-part","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/10\/22\/austrian-president-asks-conservative-nehammer-to-form-government-as-fpo-fails-to-find-part","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Incumbent Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has been asked by the country's president to form a new government, after the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) found itself with no coalition partners despite coming first in last month's election. \n\nTypically, the president asks the leader of the strongest party to form a government, in this case FP\u00d6 which won with 29% of the vote. \n\nThe conservative People's Party, led by Nehammer, has said it will not work with the FP\u00d6's controversial leader, Hebert Kickl. Austria's other three parties in the new parliament have also refused to work with the FP\u00d6 at all. \n\n\u201cThis means clearly and unambiguously \u2014 confirmed repeatedly, with a reflection period and with extra talks \u2014 that Herbert Kickl won't find any coalition partner who will make him chancellor,\u201d President Alexander Van der Bellen said.\n\nVan der Bellen wrote that he had personally informed Nehammer of his decision on Tuesday and asked him to immediately enter into negotiations with the centre-left Social Democrats, who came in third.\n\nWhen combined with the Social Democrats, Nehammer's party has the smallest possible majority in parliament, with only 92 seats out of 183. \n\nVan der Bellen has suggested that a third partner may be needed in the coalition to make sure there is a \"stable government\".\n\nThe liberal Neos party, which took 9.1% of the vote last month, are the likeliest option.\n\nThe FP\u00d6, which won the election for the first time in its history last month, successfully addressed voters' anxieties about immigration and the cost of living. \n\nKickl, who has led the Eurosceptic, Moscow-friendly party since 2021, has touted policies including \"remigration,\" a vague strategy of returning people from Austria to their country of origin. \n\nHis victory in the election led thousands of protesters to take to the streets of Vienna, demanding that other political parties not work with the leader to block him from forming a government. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Incumbent Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has been asked by the country's president to form a new government, after the far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) found itself with no coalition partners despite coming <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//30//austrias-freedom-party-secures-first-far-right-election-win-since-world-war-ii/">first in last month's election. <\/p>\n<p>Typically, the president asks the leader of the strongest party to form a government, in this case FP\u00d6 which won with 29% of the vote. <\/p>\n<p>The conservative People's Party, led by Nehammer, has said it will not work with the FP\u00d6's controversial leader, Hebert Kickl. Austria's other three parties in the new parliament have also refused to work with the FP\u00d6 at all. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means clearly and unambiguously \u2014 confirmed repeatedly, with a reflection period and with extra talks \u2014 that Herbert Kickl won't find any coalition partner who will make him chancellor,\u201d President Alexander Van der Bellen said.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Bellen wrote that he had personally informed Nehammer of his decision on Tuesday and asked him to immediately enter into negotiations with the centre-left Social Democrats, who came in third.<\/p>\n<p>When combined with the Social Democrats, Nehammer's party has the smallest possible majority in parliament, with only 92 seats out of 183. <\/p>\n<p>Van der Bellen has suggested that a third partner may be needed in the coalition to make sure there is a \"stable government\".<\/p>\n<p>The liberal Neos party, which took 9.1% of the vote last month, are the likeliest option.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8753400,8761582\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//26//far-right-fpo-leads-as-austrians-head-to-polls-in-pivotal-election-on-sunday/">Far-right FP\u00d6 leads as Austrians head to polls in pivotal election on Sunday<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//30//austrias-freedom-party-secures-first-far-right-election-win-since-world-war-ii/">Is an anti-Kickl coalition on the cards after the far right won in Austria?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The FP\u00d6, which won the election for the first time in its history last month, successfully addressed voters' anxieties about immigration and the cost of living. <\/p>\n<p>Kickl, who has led the Eurosceptic, Moscow-friendly party since 2021, has touted policies including \"remigration,\" a vague strategy of returning people from Austria to their country of origin. <\/p>\n<p>His victory in the election led thousands of protesters to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//10//04//thousands-rally-in-vienna-against-the-far-right-ahead-of-coalition-talks/">take to the streets of Vienna, demanding that other political parties not work with the leader to block him from forming a government. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1729597631,"updatedAt":1729621448,"publishedAt":1729607217,"firstPublishedAt":1729607217,"lastPublishedAt":1729607718,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/80\/52\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_99221b88-08c2-5f4c-a1c2-3cfc459fcd9a-8805264.jpg","altText":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer looks up while attending a debate at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the parliament building, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29","caption":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer looks up while attending a debate at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the parliament building, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3210,"urlSafeValue":"hueske","title":"Julia-Luise Hueske","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":10559,"slug":"austrian-politics","urlSafeValue":"austrian-politics","title":"Austrian politics","titleRaw":"Austrian politics"},{"id":11378,"slug":"far-right","urlSafeValue":"far-right","title":"Far-right","titleRaw":"Far-right"},{"id":11939,"slug":"elections","urlSafeValue":"elections","title":"Elections","titleRaw":"Elections"},{"id":13292,"slug":"fpo","urlSafeValue":"fpo","title":"FP\u00d6","titleRaw":"FP\u00d6"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2642640},{"id":2642826},{"id":2681426}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"R6fAPAb5a0I","dailymotionId":"x97v29i"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/10\/22\/en\/241022_E3SU_56822281_56825862_65760_201645_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":65760,"filesizeBytes":8416032,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/10\/22\/en\/241022_E3SU_56822281_56825862_65760_201645_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":65760,"filesizeBytes":12452128,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/europe-news\/europe-news"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"},"themes":[{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/my-europe\/europe-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":56,"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":14,"urlSafeValue":"austria","title":"Austria","url":"\/news\/europe\/austria"},"town":{"id":3641,"urlSafeValue":"vienna","title":"Vienna"},"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["84111001","84112003","84112005","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["law_gov_t_and_politics_immigration","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":{"id":1,"slug":"deepl","isAutomatic":1,"isActive":1},"localisation":{"producerLanguage":"de","storyId":8805270,"online":1},"path":"\/my-europe\/2024\/10\/22\/austrian-president-asks-conservative-nehammer-to-form-government-as-fpo-fails-to-find-part","lastModified":1729607718},{"id":2657484,"cid":8799918,"versionId":4,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241018_MBWB_56796618","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"NEXT: Vienna public transport","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Vienna is the world's most liveable city. Is its public transport network the key to its success?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"World's most liveable city: Is transport secret to Vienna's success?","titleListing2":"The Austrian capital was voted \u201cmost liveable city in the world\u201d by The Economist in part because of its public transport.\n","leadin":"The Austrian capital was voted \"most liveable city in the world\" by The Economist in part because of its public transport.","summary":"The Austrian capital was voted \"most liveable city in the world\" by The Economist in part because of its public transport.","keySentence":"","url":"we-drive-five-times-around-the-world-everyday-what-to-know-about-viennas-public-transport","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/10\/20\/we-drive-five-times-around-the-world-everyday-what-to-know-about-viennas-public-transport","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Public transport is part of what makes Vienna the most liveable city in the world, but what makes mobility so good in the city?\n\nThe city has a population of around two million and roughly half of them hold a transport pass, according to Josef Taucher, a Vienna city council member from the Social Democratic Party.\n\n\"It is \u20ac1 per day, and this has been the case since 2012. And it has a massive impact on climate protection,\" Taucher told Euronews Next on the sidelines of the European Mobility Expo, highlighting the affordability of the annual pass that costs \u20ac365.\n\nThe city government committed to making Vienna climate-neutral by 2040 in a roadmap two years ago.\n\n\"We drive every day five times around the world with our buses, tramways and metro,\" he added, referring to the kilometres travelled by the transport system\u2019s buses, trams and trains daily.\n\nAccording to the city\u2019s statistics, three out of ten people in Vienna use public transport and more than a third of the city\u2019s residents commute by walking, while just a quarter are using cars to travel.\n\nOut of the 792 million passengers on the Wiener Linien (Viennese Lines) in 2022, 352 million journeys were done on the underground and 274 million on trams.\n\nA recent survey also showed a 91 per cent satisfaction rate regarding public transport, putting Vienna in the first place on the podium out of 83 cities in Europe.\u00a0\n\nShared services for the \u2018last mile\u2019\n\n\"We added a few years ago, shared services such as shared bikes and shared electric cars to have an answer for the last and the first mile. You have to avoid people using their private cars even for a few metres because once they are in the car, they stay in the car,\" said\n\nAlexandra Reinagl, the CEO of Wiener Linien (Viennese Lines), the company running the transport system.\n\nThe last mile refers to the final leg of a user\u2019s journey when there are fewer options for public transport.\n\nIt can be an obstacle to getting people to stop using their individual car if they have concerns about their comfort or safety.\n\n\"The users must have a reliable system. So if you don't own a car, there must be another system which brings you from A to B,\" she added.\n\nExpansion planned for the future\u00a0\n\nThe city is working on expanding the public transport network.\n\n\"We are renewing our system because we have an ageing infrastructure since we run tramways since the beginning of the 20th century,\" she said.\u00a0\n\nA brand new automatic metro line, the U5, as well as the modernisation of the U2 line, were originally planned for 2026 and 2028 respectively.\u00a0\n\nHowever, the U2 project has been delayed to 2030, according to Railway Gazette.\u00a0\n\nThis extension is planned to manage 300 million additional passengers and save up to 75,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.\n\n\"We can use this as a chance to transform entire streets into new recreation areas where people not only want to move but also want to stay there. And this is what brings a really good quality to a city,\" Reinagl said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Public transport is part of what makes Vienna the most liveable city in the world, but what makes mobility so good in the city?<\/p>\n<p>The city has a population of around two million and roughly half of them hold a transport pass, according to Josef Taucher, a Vienna city council member from the Social Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is \u20ac1 per day, and this has been the case since 2012. And it has a massive impact on climate protection,\" Taucher told Euronews Next on the sidelines of the European Mobility Expo, highlighting the affordability of the annual pass that costs \u20ac365.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8591954\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//07//28//vienna-named-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-again-in-2024-with-europe-dominating-the-top-3/">Vienna named the world's most liveable city again in 2024 ahead of these European cities<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The city government committed to making Vienna climate-neutral by 2040 in a roadmap two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\"We drive every day five times around the world with our buses, tramways and metro,\" he added, referring to the kilometres travelled by the transport system\u2019s buses, trams and trains daily.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city\u2019s statistics, three out of ten people in Vienna use public transport and more than a third of the city\u2019s residents commute by walking, while just a quarter are using cars to travel.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 792 million passengers on the Wiener Linien (Viennese Lines) in 2022, 352 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wien.gv.at//statistik//pdf//viennainfigures-2023.pdf/">million journeys were done on the underground<\/strong><\/a> and 274 million on trams.<\/p>\n<p>A recent survey also showed a 91 per cent satisfaction rate regarding public transport, putting Vienna in the first place on the podium out of 83 cities in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8740018\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//11//30//locals-in-this-capital-are-happiest-with-their-public-transport-how-do-europes-cities-comp/">This capital's locals are happiest with their public transport. How does the rest of Europe compare?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Shared services for the \u2018last mile\u2019<\/h2><p>\"We added a few years ago, shared services such as shared bikes and shared electric cars to have an answer for the last and the first mile. You have to avoid people using their private cars even for a few metres because once they are in the car, they stay in the car,\" said<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Reinagl, the CEO of Wiener Linien (Viennese Lines), the company running the transport system.<\/p>\n<p>The last mile refers to the final leg of a user\u2019s journey when there are fewer options for public transport.<\/p>\n<p>It can be an obstacle to getting people to stop using their individual car if they have concerns about their comfort or safety.<\/p>\n<p>\"The users must have a reliable system. So if you don't own a car, there must be another system which brings you from A to B,\" she added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8767936\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//10//03//europeans-in-major-cities-abandon-cars-when-public-transport-is-available-new-survey-finds/">Europeans in major cities 'abandon cars' when public transport is available, new survey finds<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Expansion planned for the future<\/strong><\/h2><p>The city is working on expanding the public transport network.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are renewing our system because we have an ageing infrastructure since we run tramways since the beginning of the 20th century,\" she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A brand new automatic metro line, the U5, as well as the modernisation of the U2 line, were originally planned for 2026 and 2028 respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the U2 project has been delayed to 2030, according to<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.railwaygazette.com//metros//wiens-u2xu5-metro-scheme-delayed-to-2030//67134.article#:~:text=AUSTRIA%3A%20The%20planned%20opening%20of,provided%20more%20challenging%20than%20expected.\"> <strong>Railway Gazette<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This extension is planned to manage 300 million additional passengers and save up to 75,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.<\/p>\n<p>\"We can use this as a chance to transform entire streets into new recreation areas where people not only want to move but also want to stay there. And this is what brings a really good quality to a city,\" Reinagl said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1729265383,"updatedAt":1729435924,"publishedAt":1729422019,"firstPublishedAt":1729231219,"lastPublishedAt":1729435923,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/79\/99\/18\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bc0f21bf-c8ff-56da-a99f-73e8630a932c-8799918.jpg","altText":"The Austrian capital was voted \u201cmost liveable city in the world\u201d by The Economist in part because of its public transport.","caption":"The Austrian capital was voted \u201cmost liveable city in the world\u201d by The Economist in part because of its public transport.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Canva","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2316,"urlSafeValue":"duboust","title":"Oceane 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excluded.","keySentence":"","url":"far-right-freedom-party-leader-holds-talks-with-austrian-president-on-new-government","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/10\/04\/far-right-freedom-party-leader-holds-talks-with-austrian-president-on-new-government","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Leader of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), Herbert Kickl, met with the federal president to discuss the formation of a new government.\n\nThe FP\u00d6 won nearly 29% of the votes in last week\u2019s national election, securing the highest share but falling short of a majority.\n\nTo form a government, Kickl must now seek a coalition, but Austria's other parties \u2014 including the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), the Green Party, and the liberal NEOS \u2014 have all ruled out joining a coalition.\n\nThe former ruling OVP, which secured 26% of the vote, said it might consider collaboration, only if Kickl is not included in the government.\n\nThe FP\u00d6 leader has been a controversial figure known for endorsing various conspiracy theories, including advocating for the use of Ivermectin, a drug for treating parasitic worms in animals, during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nHe has also previously called the World Health Organisation \u201can instrument for enforcement of power interests.\u201d\n\nKickl was a longtime campaign strategist for the Freedom Party, coining catchy and provocative anti-immigration slogans. \n\nHe spent most of his political career in the background \u2014 notably as speechwriter for J\u00f6rg Haider, who led the party to success in the 1980s and 1990s \u2014 before serving as interior minister between 2017 and 2019 in a government that collapsed because of a corruption scandal surrounding the FP\u00d6's then-leader. \n\nEven Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party, which has formed two national coalition governments with the FP\u00d6 and works with it in several regional governments, considers Kickl a \u201csecurity risk\u201d. \n\nNehammer says that Kickl \u201cradicalised himself\u201d and it is \u201cimpossible to shape a state\u201d with him.\n\nThe largely Eurosceptic and Kremlin-friendly FP\u00d6, founded in 1956 by former Nazis, takes a hard-line stance on immigration, calling for the \u201cremigration of uninvited foreigners\u201d and seeking to reclaim powers from the EU for Austria.\n\nIt is part of a right-wing populist alliance in the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe, whose members welcomed the Austrian election results as building on gains in other countries.\n\nThe FP\u00d6 calls for lifting sanctions against Russia and criticises Western military aid to Ukraine. \n\nKickl has labelled European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a \u201cwarmonger.\u201d \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Leader of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FP\u00d6), Herbert Kickl, met with the federal president to discuss the formation of a new government.<\/p>\n<p>The FP\u00d6 won nearly 29% of the votes in last week\u2019s national election, securing the highest share but falling short of a majority.<\/p>\n<p>To form a government, Kickl must now seek a coalition, but Austria's other parties \u2014 including the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), the Green Party, and the liberal NEOS \u2014 have all ruled out joining a coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The former ruling OVP, which secured 26% of the vote, said it might consider collaboration, only if Kickl is not included in the government.<\/p>\n<p>The FP\u00d6 leader has been a controversial figure known for endorsing various conspiracy theories, including advocating for the use of Ivermectin, a drug for treating parasitic worms in animals, during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He has also previously called the World Health Organisation \u201can instrument for enforcement of power interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kickl was a longtime campaign strategist for the Freedom Party, coining catchy and provocative 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All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He spent most of his political career in the background \u2014 notably as speechwriter for J\u00f6rg Haider, who led the party to success in the 1980s and 1990s \u2014 before serving as interior minister between 2017 and 2019 in a government that collapsed because of a corruption scandal surrounding the FP\u00d6's then-leader. <\/p>\n<p>Even Chancellor Karl Nehammer's conservative Austrian People's Party, which has formed two national coalition governments with the FP\u00d6 and works with it in several regional governments, considers Kickl a \u201csecurity risk\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Nehammer says that Kickl \u201cradicalised himself\u201d and it is \u201cimpossible to shape a state\u201d with him.<\/p>\n<p>The largely Eurosceptic and Kremlin-friendly FP\u00d6, founded in 1956 by former Nazis, takes a hard-line stance on immigration, calling for the \u201cremigration of 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The largely eurosceptic and Kremlin-friendly party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, promising voters measures to boost Austria's economy. \n\nWithout a full majority, the party would need to form a coalition government in order to lead the country \u2014 which would mark the first time Austria has been ruled by the far right since World War II. \n\n'It's Thursday again'\n\nAustria's other parties, including the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), the Green party and the liberal political party NEOS have ruled out entering a coalition with the FP\u00d6 with the previously ruling OVP, who scored 26% of the vote, a kingmaker. \n\nThe OVP has opened the door on collaborating with the FP\u00d6 on the condition that its leader, Hebert Kickl, is not part of the government. \n\nKickl, who has insisted he would be part of a future government, has solidified his position as a controversial figure in Austrian politics, referring to himself as the \"Volkskanzler\" or \"chancellor for the people\" \u2014 a Nazi propaganda term used to describe Adolf Hitler. \n\nProtesters at the demonstration held signs saying \"it's Thursday again\" alluding to a series of demonstrations that broke out in the country's capital on Thursdays in 2000 against the OVP entering into a coalition with the FP\u00d6. \n\nThe far-right party has already been part of Austria's government twice, as a junior partner in a coalition. \n\nThis time, FP\u00d6 has the opportunity to lead a potential coalition with President Alexander Van der Bellen opening talks with the leaders of all parties, starting with Kickl, on Friday. \n\nIn discussions that are expected to be protracted, the president traditionally invites the leader of the majority-winning party to form a government although is under no constitutional obligation to do so. \n\nVan der Bellen previously said he would not automatically give the task of forming the new government to the FP\u00d6 leader, although what an alternative coalition would look like is currently unclear. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thousands marched through central Vienna on Thursday evening to urge the country's political parties not to join a coalition with the far-right FP\u00d6.<\/p>\n<p>The protest, which started at the University of Vienna and ended in front of the parliament building, was attended by around 25,000 people, according to event organisers. <\/p>\n<p>The aim was to urge all Austrian parties \u2014 particularly the centre-right People\u2019s Party (\u00d6VP) \u2014 not to enter into a coalition with the FP\u00d6.<\/p>\n<p>The FP\u00d6 emerged victorious with 29% of the vote for the first time in its history following national elections on Sunday. The largely eurosceptic and Kremlin-friendly party campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, promising voters measures to boost Austria's economy. <\/p>\n<p>Without a full majority, the party would need to form a coalition government in order to lead the country \u2014 which would mark the first time Austria has been ruled by the far right since World War II. <\/p>\n<h2>'It's Thursday again'<\/h2><p>Austria's other parties, including the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), the Green party and the liberal political party NEOS have ruled out entering a coalition with the FP\u00d6 with the previously ruling OVP, who scored 26% of the vote, a kingmaker. <\/p>\n<p>The OVP has opened the door on collaborating with the FP\u00d6 on the condition that its leader, Hebert Kickl, is not part of the government. <\/p>\n<p>Kickl, who has insisted he would be part of a future government, has solidified his position as a controversial figure in Austrian politics, referring to himself as the \"Volkskanzler\" or \"chancellor for the people\" \u2014 a Nazi propaganda term used to describe Adolf Hitler. <\/p>\n<p>Protesters at the demonstration held signs saying \"it's Thursday again\" alluding to a series of demonstrations that broke out in the country's capital on Thursdays in 2000 against the OVP entering into a coalition with the FP\u00d6. <\/p>\n<p>The far-right party has already been part of Austria's government twice, as a junior partner in a coalition. <\/p>\n<p>This time, FP\u00d6 has the opportunity to lead a potential coalition with President Alexander Van der Bellen opening talks with the leaders of all parties, starting with Kickl, on Friday. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8761582\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//30//austrias-freedom-party-secures-first-far-right-election-win-since-world-war-ii/">Is an anti-Kickl coalition on the cards after the far right won in Austria?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In discussions that are expected to be protracted, the president traditionally invites the leader of the majority-winning party to form a government although is under no constitutional obligation to do so. <\/p>\n<p>Van der Bellen previously said he would not automatically give the task of forming the new government to the FP\u00d6 leader, although what an alternative coalition would look like is currently unclear. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1728032588,"updatedAt":1728038279,"publishedAt":1728038274,"firstPublishedAt":1728038274,"lastPublishedAt":1728038274,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/77\/06\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f2c480ae-a61a-54a4-bef0-07d31dc9a502-8770676.jpg","altText":"Anti right wing protesters shout slogans and hold an banner that reads \"Don't let Nazis rule and never let them march\" in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024,","caption":"Anti right wing protesters shout slogans and hold an banner that reads \"Don't let Nazis rule and never let them march\" in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024,","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Andreea Alexandru\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What's next for Austria after far-right win historic victory? ","titleListing2":"What's next for Austria after far-right win historic victory? ","leadin":"Controversial leader Hebert Kickl has led the Austrian Freedom Party to a narrow win, and now faces a challenge finding a coalition partner who would be willing to work with him.","summary":"Controversial leader Hebert Kickl has led the Austrian Freedom Party to a narrow win, and now faces a challenge finding a coalition partner who would be willing to work with him.","keySentence":"","url":"whats-next-for-austria-after-far-right-win-historic-victory","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/10\/01\/whats-next-for-austria-after-far-right-win-historic-victory","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) have made history after narrowly winning Austria's general election with 29% of the vote making them the dominant party for the first time in their post World War II history. \n\nThey however face challenges moving forward in forming a coalition, as Austria's other main parties have ruled out working with it and its controversial leader, Hebert Kickl. \n\nThe FP\u00d6 could even find itself locked out of government all together if other parties form a coalition in order to keep it out. \n\nExperts have said that the party has successfully managed to tap into Austrian's anxieties such as housing and a straining healthcare system, often successfully blaming migration for a host of other issues. \n\n\"I think that migration itself is not the major issue. It is probably one of the most visible changes that\u2019s why people resist and react to it in more emotional way. What the actual problems are, the crisis of the health system, education, \"Cengiz G\u00fcnay, the director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) said. \n\nKickl is critical of military aid sent to Ukraine, and has proposed ending sanctions against Russia. \n\nIt is likely that the other four parties who have secured seats in Austria's parliament will look for ways to form a coalition without Kickl and his party. \n\nAustria's political future remains up in the air as the five political party parties are set to begin negotiations in order to form its next parliament. \n\nWatch the full video in the player above. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) have made history after narrowly winning Austria's general election with 29% of the vote making them the dominant party for the first time in their post World War II history. <\/p>\n<p>They however face challenges moving forward in forming a coalition, as Austria's other main parties have ruled out working with it and its controversial leader, Hebert Kickl. <\/p>\n<p>The FP\u00d6 could even find itself locked out of government all together if other parties form a coalition in order to keep it out. <\/p>\n<p>Experts have said that the party has successfully managed to tap into Austrian's anxieties such as housing and a straining healthcare system, often successfully blaming migration for a host of other issues. <\/p>\n<p>\"I think that migration itself is not the major issue. It is probably one of the most visible changes that\u2019s why people resist and react to it in more emotional way. What the actual problems are, the crisis of the health system, education, \"Cengiz G\u00fcnay, the director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (OIIP) said. <\/p>\n<p>Kickl is critical of military aid sent to Ukraine, and has proposed ending sanctions against Russia. <\/p>\n<p>It is likely that the other four parties who have secured seats in Austria's parliament will look for ways to form a coalition without Kickl and his party. <\/p>\n<p>Austria's political future remains up in the air as the five political party parties are set to begin negotiations in order to form its next parliament. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch the full video in the player above.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727711706,"updatedAt":1727760993,"publishedAt":1727760627,"firstPublishedAt":1727760627,"lastPublishedAt":1727760661,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/32\/34\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_fc0d8fc9-a0b4-5df2-aec5-07a810e9a4f9-8763234.jpg","altText":"Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria poses with supporters, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election.","caption":"Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria poses with supporters, in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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We are now really going to write this new chapter in Austrian history together,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't tell you how happy I am about this result. What we have achieved is beyond my wildest dreams.\"\n\nThe pro-Kremlin, anti-migration party has capitalised on the voters' disapproval of the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and a nosediving economic situation. \n\nBut to become Austria's new leader, Kickl needs a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority, and that might be tricky.\n\nHe has said he is open to negotiating with other parties, but his rivals \u2014 including Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Social Democrats leader Andreas Babler \u2014 have refused the possibility of working with the far right, turning him down yet again on Sunday night.\n\nOn Monday morning, Kickl, who wants to become a \"Volkskanzler\" or people's chancellor \u2014 an echo of Adolf Hitler's Nazi propaganda moniker \u2014 will have a lot of convincing to do, despite his party's strong showing.\n\n'You can't run a state sensibly' with Kickl\n\nA projection for ORF public television, based on counting of over 90% of the vote, showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2%.\n\nThat win has pushed Nehammer\u2019s Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP)\u00a0into second place, with 26.5%, seeing the outgoing government \u2014 a coalition with the environmentalist Greens \u2014 lose its majority in the lower house of parliament. The Social Democrats came in third.\n\nSpeaking in Vienna, Nehammer said it was \"bitter\" that his party lost but his position towards Kickl hadn't changed.\n\n\"I have always said, with Herbert Kickl, who believes in conspiracy theories, who accuses the WHO of being the next world government and the meeting in Davos of being a preparatory meeting for world domination, you can't run a state sensibly and responsibly with him. And I still stand by that,\" he said.\n\nA major question is whether the \u00d6VP and Social Democrats will align \u2014\u00a0potentially with an additional, smaller party like the Greens or NEOS \u2014 to form an anti-Kickl coalition.\u00a0\n\nAlternatively, the \u00d6VP could replace Nehammer with a new leader more amenable to working with Kickl. The conservative party as a whole may prefer a merger with the FP\u00d6 over an alliance with the left.\u00a0\n\nIn 1983, the Social Democrats and the conservatives accounted for almost 91% of the votes. This has now dropped to less than 50%.\u00a0\n\nThe Austrian political establishment's hefty electoral defeat is the latest example of shifting voting trends across the continent.\u00a0\n\nRecent elections in countries like Germany and France not only show a rise in the far right but also indicate rising resentment with the political status quo.\u00a0\n\nPopulist votes are being snatched by both the extreme left and right as voters challenge the traditional EU centrist-liberal establishment.\u00a0\n\nKicking out Kickl?\n\nIn its election program, titled \"Fortress Austria,\" the Freedom Party calls for \"remigration of uninvited foreigners,\" achieving a more \"homogeneous\" nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an emergency law.\n\nThe Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of Western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.\n\nKickl has also criticised what he calls \"elites\" in Brussels and called for some powers to be brought back from the European Union to Austria.\n\nThe Freedom Party's win sparked protests outside the parliament building in Vienna with demonstrators holding placards with slogans including \"Kickl is a Nazi\".\n\nThe final official results will be published later in the week after a small number of remaining postal ballots have been counted, but those are unlikely to substantially change the outcome.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Speaking to his supporters in Vienna, Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) leader Herbert Kickl said it was a \"piece of history that we have written together today\" after the party founded by former Nazis secured the first Austrian parliamentary election win for a far-right party post-World War II.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have opened the door to a new era. We are now really going to write this new chapter in Austrian history together,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"I can't tell you how happy I am about this result. What we have achieved is beyond my wildest dreams.\"<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Kremlin, anti-migration party has capitalised on the voters' disapproval of the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and a nosediving economic situation. <\/p>\n<p>But to become Austria's new leader, Kickl needs a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority, and that might be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>He has said he is open to negotiating with other parties, but his rivals \u2014 including Chancellor Karl Nehammer and Social Democrats leader Andreas Babler \u2014 have refused the possibility of working with the far right, turning him down yet again on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, Kickl, who wants to become a \"Volkskanzler\" or people's chancellor \u2014 an echo of Adolf Hitler's Nazi propaganda moniker \u2014 will have a lot of convincing to do, despite his party's strong showing.<\/p>\n<h2>'You can't run a state sensibly' with Kickl<\/h2><p>A projection for ORF public television, based on counting of over 90% of the vote, showed the Freedom Party finishing first with 29.2%.<\/p>\n<p>That win has pushed Nehammer\u2019s Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP)\u00a0into second place, with 26.5%, seeing the outgoing government \u2014 a coalition with the environmentalist Greens \u2014 lose its majority in the lower house of parliament. The Social Democrats came in third.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Vienna, Nehammer said it was \"bitter\" that his party lost but his position towards Kickl hadn't changed.<\/p>\n<p>\"I have always said, with Herbert Kickl, who believes in conspiracy theories, who accuses the WHO of being the next world government and the meeting in Davos of being a preparatory meeting for world domination, you can't run a state sensibly and responsibly with him. And I still stand by that,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//76//15//82//808x539_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg/" alt=\"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer gestures at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the parliament building, in Vienna, 29 September 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1920x1281_cmsv2_6b607709-b2f9-5792-8b4e-4d5d2dab1ff3-8761582.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer gestures at the national broadcaster studio, set up in the parliament building, in Vienna, 29 September 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Heinz-Peter Bader<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A major question is whether the \u00d6VP and Social Democrats will align \u2014\u00a0potentially with an additional, smaller party like the Greens or NEOS \u2014 to form an anti-Kickl coalition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, the \u00d6VP could replace Nehammer with a new leader more amenable to working with Kickl. The conservative party as a whole may prefer a merger with the FP\u00d6 over an alliance with the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1983, the Social Democrats and the conservatives accounted for almost 91% of the votes. This has now dropped to less than 50%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian political establishment's hefty electoral defeat is the latest example of shifting voting trends across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recent elections in countries like Germany and France not only show a rise in the far right but also indicate rising resentment with the political status quo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Populist votes are being <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//05//29//new-nationalist-left-group-could-blossom-in-european-parliament-this-is-how/">snatched by both the extreme left and right<\/strong><\/a> as voters challenge the traditional EU centrist-liberal establishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Kicking out Kickl?<\/h2><p>In its election program, titled \"Fortress Austria,\" the Freedom Party calls for \"remigration of uninvited foreigners,\" achieving a more \"homogeneous\" nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an emergency law.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of Western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//76//15//82//808x539_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg/" alt=\"Protesters shout slogans and hold banners that read 'Nazis Out of Parliament\u2019 outside the parliament building in Vienna, September 29, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/1920x1280_cmsv2_f6f46f02-732a-5b71-8a7d-4798bbb5b343-8761582.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Protesters shout slogans and hold banners that read 'Nazis Out of Parliament\u2019 outside the parliament building in Vienna, September 29, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andreea Alexandru\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kickl has also criticised what he calls \"elites\" in Brussels and called for some powers to be brought back from the European Union to Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Party's win sparked protests outside the parliament building in Vienna with demonstrators holding placards with slogans including \"Kickl is a Nazi\".<\/p>\n<p>The final official results will be published later in the week after a small number of remaining postal ballots have been counted, but those are unlikely to substantially change the outcome.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727664824,"updatedAt":1727723347,"publishedAt":1727665945,"firstPublishedAt":1727665945,"lastPublishedAt":1727723347,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/15\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_23326a8f-757d-50b9-bf52-3c04099c8a68-8761582.jpg","altText":"Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, Herbert Kickl, cheers with supporters in Vienna, September 29, 2024","caption":"Leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, Herbert Kickl, cheers with supporters in Vienna, September 29, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Andreea Alexandru\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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EXIT POLLS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Exit polls indicate Austria's far-right party has won national election","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Exit polls indicate Austria's far-right party has won election","titleListing2":"Exit polls indicate Austria's far-right party has won election","leadin":"Exit polls indicate Austria's far-right party has won historic first national election after tapping into voters' fears of immigration and the Ukraine war.","summary":"Exit polls indicate Austria's far-right party has won historic first national election after tapping into voters' fears of immigration and the Ukraine war.","keySentence":"","url":"exit-polls-indicate-austrias-far-right-party-has-won-national-election","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/29\/exit-polls-indicate-austrias-far-right-party-has-won-national-election","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The projection for ORF public television, based on partial counting, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.1% and for Chancellor Karl Nehammer\u2019s Austrian People\u2019s Party at 26.2%. The centre-left Social Democrats were in third place with 20.4%.\n\nThe exit poll is believed to be accurate to within plus or minus 1.5 %.\n\nThe party appears to have successfully tapped into voters\u2019 anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.\n\nHerbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria\u2019s new chancellor. He has used the term \u201cVolkskanzler,\u201d or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison. \n\nBut to become Austria's new leader, he will now need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament. \n\nMore than 6.3 million people age 16 were eligible to vote for the new parliament in Austria, a European Union member that has a policy of military neutrality.\n\nKickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria\u2019s last parliamentary election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the European Parliament election, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties. \n\nIn 2019, its support slumped to 16.2% after a scandal brought down a government in which it was the junior coalition partner. Then-vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache resigned following the publication of a secretly recorded video in which he appeared to offer favours to a purported Russian investor.\n\nThe far right tapped into voter frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic. It also been able to build on worries about migration.\n\nIn its election programme, the Freedom Party called for \u201cremigration of uninvited foreigners,\u201d and for achieving a more \u201chomogeneous\u201d nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an \u201cemergency law.\u201d\n\nGernot Bauer, a journalist with Austrian magazine Profil who recently co-published an investigative biography of the far-right leader, said that under Kickl\u2019s leadership, the Freedom Party has moved \u201ceven further to the right,\u201d as Kickl refused to explicitly distance the party from the Identitarian Movement, a pan-European nationalist and far-right group.\n\nBauer describes Kickl\u2019s rhetoric as \u201caggressive\u201d and says some of his language is deliberately provocative. \n\nThe Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.\n\nThe final result will be published on Monday after postal votes have also counted.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The projection for ORF public television, based on partial counting, put support for the Freedom Party at 29.1% and for Chancellor Karl Nehammer\u2019s Austrian People\u2019s Party at 26.2%. The centre-left Social Democrats were in third place with 20.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The exit poll is believed to be accurate to within plus or minus 1.5 %.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1840407425083470092\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The party appears to have successfully tapped into voters\u2019 anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, wants to become Austria\u2019s new chancellor. He has used the term \u201cVolkskanzler,\u201d or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Kickl has rejected the comparison. <\/p>\n<p>But to become Austria's new leader, he will now need a coalition partner to command a majority in the lower house of parliament. <\/p>\n<p>More than 6.3 million people age 16 were eligible to vote for the new parliament in Austria, a European Union member that has a policy of military neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria\u2019s last parliamentary election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the European Parliament election, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties. <\/p>\n<p>In 2019, its support slumped to 16.2% after a scandal brought down a government in which it was the junior coalition partner. Then-vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache resigned following the publication of a secretly recorded video in which he appeared to offer favours to a purported Russian investor.<\/p>\n<p>The far right tapped into voter frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic. It also been able to build on worries about migration.<\/p>\n<p>In its election programme, the Freedom Party called for \u201cremigration of uninvited foreigners,\u201d and for achieving a more \u201chomogeneous\u201d nation by tightly controlling borders and suspending the right to asylum via an \u201cemergency law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gernot Bauer, a journalist with Austrian magazine Profil who recently co-published an investigative biography of the far-right leader, said that under Kickl\u2019s leadership, the Freedom Party has moved \u201ceven further to the right,\u201d as Kickl refused to explicitly distance the party from the Identitarian Movement, a pan-European nationalist and far-right group.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer describes Kickl\u2019s rhetoric as \u201caggressive\u201d and says some of his language is deliberately provocative. <\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The final result will be published on Monday after postal votes have also counted.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727613381,"updatedAt":1727656219,"publishedAt":1727622788,"firstPublishedAt":1727622788,"lastPublishedAt":1727625112,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/12\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1cdab398-1499-557b-b0f7-9f022ebafc6b-8761294.jpg","altText":"Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria gives a thumbs-up as he arrives at a polling station in Purkersdorf, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024","caption":"Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria gives a thumbs-up as he arrives at a polling station in Purkersdorf, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Heinz-Peter 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POLLS OPEN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Voting underway in Austria's parliamentary elections with far-right tipped to win","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Voting underway in Austrian parliamentary elections","titleListing2":"Voting underway in Austria's parliamentary elections with far-right Freedom Party tipped to win","leadin":"The Freedom Party is set to win a national election for the first time in its history as it taps into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.","summary":"The Freedom Party is set to win a national election for the first time in its history as it taps into voters' anxieties about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.","keySentence":"","url":"polls-open-in-austrias-parliamentary-elections-with-far-right-tipped-to-win","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/29\/polls-open-in-austrias-parliamentary-elections-with-far-right-tipped-to-win","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Polls have opened in Austria's parliamentary elections with the far-right Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) seemingly the most popular amongst voters who are anxious about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.\n\nHerbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the party\u00a0since 2021, wants to become Austria's new chancellor.\n\nSpeaking at a campaign rally on Friday, he demanded the \"remigration\" of illegal immigrants.\n\n\"It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people, who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn't right with the system anymore. And that\u2019s why we finally need remigration. I don\u2019t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil,\" he said.\n\nKickl has also sparked controversy on the campaign trail by using the term 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.\n\nPolls estimate the Freedom Party will take around 28% of the vote, well below the threshold needed for an outright win. But finding coalition partners might be tough.\n\nChancellor Karl Nehammer, whose Austrian People's Party (\u00d6sterreichische Volkspartei) is polling second at 24%, has already ruled out teaming up with Kickl and urged voters to vote for him to prevent the far-right from coming to power.\n\n\"I have made it clear with whom it is not possible to form a responsible, viable government. The current leader of the FP\u00d6 (Freedom Party of Austria) does not fulfil these criteria. That's why I excluded him,\" he said in Vienna on Friday.\n\nStill, Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria's last election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the\u00a0European Parliament elections, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties.\n\nIn the 2019 election, its support slumped to 16.2% after a scandal brought down a government in which it was the junior coalition partner.\n\nThen-vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader\u00a0Heinz-Christian Strache resigned following the publication of a secretly recorded video in which he appeared to offer favours to a purported Russian investor.\n\nThe Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.\n\nThe leader of the Social Democrats, a party that led many of Austria's post-World War II governments, has positioned himself as the polar opposite to Kickl.\u00a0\n\nAndreas Babler, who is also mayor of the town of Traiskirchen, home to the country's biggest refugee reception centre, has also ruled out governing with the far-right and labelled Kickl \"a threat to democracy.\"\n\n\"Politics has only one obligation: to focus on people's realities and to put respect for people first. Politics has the sole task of improving the conditions under which most people in this country have to live,\" he said at a campaign event on Saturday.\n\nRounding out the top five are NEOS, the Greens and the BIER Party.\n\nNEOS was formed a decade ago following a merger with the Liberal Forum and has campaigned on promises to recruit 20,000 new teachers, reduce tax burdens on citizens and increase political transparency.\n\nParty leader Beate Meinl-Resinger said people of all ages were enthusiastic about what her party was offering.\n\n\"I want us to look ahead, look to the future and create optimism and confidence in Austria again, to say that things will get better and that there is a future that is better than today,\" she said.\n\nTied almost neck and neck in the polls with NEOS are the Greens (Die Gr\u00fcnen) led by Werner Kogler who also serves as Austria's Vice Chancellor.\n\nAt his party's campaign rally on Friday, he praised the achievements of the Green team as the junior party in the ruling coalition.\n\n\"When has there ever been such a strong government team from a parliamentary group in this republic? But now, of course, it's about the future,\" he told supporters in Vienna.\n\nAround 6.5 million Austrian are eligible to cast a ballot and voting ends at 5pm local time when exit polls will give an indication of the results.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Polls have opened in Austria's parliamentary elections with the far-right Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) seemingly the most popular amongst voters who are anxious about immigration, inflation and the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and long-time campaign strategist who has led the party\u00a0since 2021, wants to become Austria's new chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a campaign rally on Friday, he demanded the \"remigration\" of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665435745937962\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//76//06//28//808x539_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg/" alt=\"Herbert Kickl, who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, speaks at a campaign event in Vienna, September 27, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1920x1280_cmsv2_45e6f543-3450-517c-8d42-82bd8be95410-8760628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Herbert Kickl, who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, speaks at a campaign event in Vienna, September 27, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2019 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people, who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn't right with the system anymore. And that\u2019s why we finally need remigration. I don\u2019t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kickl has also sparked controversy on the campaign trail by using the term 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>Polls estimate the Freedom Party will take around 28% of the vote, well below the threshold needed for an outright win. But finding coalition partners might be tough.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Karl Nehammer, whose Austrian People's Party (\u00d6sterreichische Volkspartei) is polling second at 24%, has already ruled out teaming up with Kickl and urged voters to vote for him to prevent the far-right from coming to power.<\/p>\n<p>\"I have made it clear with whom it is not possible to form a responsible, viable government. The current leader of the FP\u00d6 (Freedom Party of Austria) does not fulfil these criteria. That's why I excluded him,\" he said in Vienna on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.7054285714285714\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//76//06//28//808x569_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg/" alt=\"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the People\u2019s Party attends his final election rally in Vienna, September 27, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/384x271_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/640x451_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/750x529_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/828x584_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1080x762_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1200x847_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/1920x1354_cmsv2_797da98d-4d00-57aa-9a25-15bed65802fc-8760628.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the People\u2019s Party attends his final election rally in Vienna, September 27, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Still, Kickl has achieved a turnaround since Austria's last election in 2019. In June, the Freedom Party narrowly won a nationwide vote for the first time in the\u00a0European Parliament elections, which also brought gains for other European far-right parties.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2019 election, its support slumped to 16.2% after a scandal brought down a government in which it was the junior coalition partner.<\/p>\n<p>Then-vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader\u00a0Heinz-Christian Strache resigned following the publication of a secretly recorded video in which he appeared to offer favours to a purported Russian investor.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Party also calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defence project launched by Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The leader of the Social Democrats, a party that led many of Austria's post-World War II governments, has positioned himself as the polar opposite to Kickl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//92//52//808x539_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg/" alt=\"People hold multilingual banners that read "We're against the right wing," before the final electoral rally of the Freedom Party in Vienna, September 27, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/92\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_0dabcfe3-f27f-52b7-ae0a-7c6538a1d004-8759252.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People hold multilingual banners that read "We're against the right wing," before the final electoral rally of the Freedom Party in Vienna, September 27, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andreea Alexandru\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Andreas Babler, who is also mayor of the town of Traiskirchen, home to the country's biggest refugee reception centre, has also ruled out governing with the far-right and labelled Kickl \"a threat to democracy.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Politics has only one obligation: to focus on people's realities and to put respect for people first. Politics has the sole task of improving the conditions under which most people in this country have to live,\" he said at a campaign event on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top five are NEOS, the Greens and the BIER Party.<\/p>\n<p>NEOS was formed a decade ago following a merger with the Liberal Forum and has campaigned on promises to recruit 20,000 new teachers, reduce tax burdens on citizens and increase political transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Party leader Beate Meinl-Resinger said people of all ages were enthusiastic about what her party was offering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1839964171951055292\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I want us to look ahead, look to the future and create optimism and confidence in Austria again, to say that things will get better and that there is a future that is better than today,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tied almost neck and neck in the polls with NEOS are the Greens (Die Gr\u00fcnen) led by Werner Kogler who also serves as Austria's Vice Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>At his party's campaign rally on Friday, he praised the achievements of the Green team as the junior party in the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\"When has there ever been such a strong government team from a parliamentary group in this republic? But now, of course, it's about the future,\" he told supporters in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>Around 6.5 million Austrian are eligible to cast a ballot and voting ends at 5pm local time when exit polls will give an indication of the results.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727555239,"updatedAt":1727655312,"publishedAt":1727592453,"firstPublishedAt":1727592453,"lastPublishedAt":1727614762,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/76\/06\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_304c8bc8-6afe-5e58-ae01-147aeef05e57-8760628.jpg","altText":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer smiles while exiting a polling station in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, ","caption":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer smiles while exiting a polling station in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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FINAL CAMPAIGNS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Austrian parties hold final campaign rallies ahead of Sunday\u2019s elections","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Austrian parties hold final rallies ahead of Sunday\u2019s election","titleListing2":"Austrian political parties hold final campaign rallies ahead of Sunday\u2019s elections","leadin":"Polls show the far-right Freedom Part of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) in the lead, predicted to take more than 28% in what could be their first ever election victory but finding coalition partners could be tough.","summary":"Polls show the far-right Freedom Part of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) in the lead, predicted to take more than 28% in what could be their first ever election victory but finding coalition partners could be tough.","keySentence":"","url":"austrian-parties-hold-final-campaign-rallies-ahead-of-sundays-elections","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/28\/austrian-parties-hold-final-campaign-rallies-ahead-of-sundays-elections","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The majority of Austria's political parties have held their final campaign rallies ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday.\n\nPolls show the far-right Freedom Part of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) in the lead, predicted to take more than 28% in what could be their first ever election victory.\n\nSpeaking at a rally in central Vienna, party leader Herbert Kickl demanded a large scale \"remigration\" of illegal immigrants.\n\n\"It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people, who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn't right with the system anymore. And that\u2019s why we finally need remigration. I don\u2019t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil,\" Kickl said to cheering supporters.\n\nHe has promoted an \"Austria first\" strategy in his politics saying his aim wasn\u2019t to \"save the entire world\".\n\nKickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, has his sights set on the Chancellor\u2019s seat, but if his party fails to secure an outright majority, finding coalition partners could be tricky.\n\nPolling second at around 24% is the liberal conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6sterreichische Volkspartei) led by incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer.\n\nAt his campaign rally on Friday, he delivered a warning to voters concerned by the prospect of a victory by the Freedom Party.\n\n\"Every vote, for example for a small party, harbours the risk that Herbert Kickl will become chancellor,\" he said.\n\n\"This means that anyone who wants to prevent this has one option, namely to vote for Karl Nehammer.\"\n\nNehammer has ruled out entering into a coalition with Kickl, who drew criticism after using the term 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler.\n\n\"I have made it clear with whom it is not possible to form a responsible, viable government. The current leader of the FP\u00d6 (Freedom Party of Austria) does not fulfil these criteria. That's why I excluded him,\" he said.\n\nThe Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei \u00d6sterreichs), headed by Andreas Babler, are polling in third place, expected to take around 20% of the vote. Their final campaign rallies ahead of Sunday's vote are expected to take place on Saturday.\n\nRounding out the top five are NEOS, the Greens and the BIER Party.\n\nNEOS was formed a decade ago following a merger with the Liberal Forum and has campaigned on promises to recruit 20,000 new teachers, reduce tax burdens on citizens and increase political transparency.\n\nParty leader Beate Meinl-Resinger said people of all ages were enthusiastic about what her party was offering.\n\n\"I want us to look ahead, look to the future and create optimism and confidence in Austria again, to say that things will get better and that there is a future that is better than today,\" she said.\n\nTied almost neck and neck in the polls with NEOS are the Greens (Die Gr\u00fcnen) led by Werner Kogler who also serves as Austria's Vice Chancellor.\n\nAt his party's campaign rally on Friday, he praised the achievements of the Green team as the junior party in the ruling coalition.\n\n\"When has there ever been such a strong government team from a parliamentary group in this republic? But now, of course, it's about the future,\" he told supporters in Vienna.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The majority of Austria's political parties have held their final campaign rallies ahead of parliamentary elections on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Polls show the far-right Freedom Part of Austria (Freiheitliche Partei \u00d6sterreich) in the lead, predicted to take more than 28% in what could be their first ever election victory.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a rally in central Vienna, party leader Herbert Kickl demanded a large scale \"remigration\" of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is not acceptable that we have to protect our people from the people, who are coming here looking for protection. Then something isn't right with the system anymore. And that\u2019s why we finally need remigration. I don\u2019t even know why this word is supposed to be so evil,\" Kickl said to cheering supporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//96//80//808x539_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg/" alt=\"Head of the Freedom Party Herbert Kickl waves to supporters at a final election campaign event in Vienna, September 27, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1920x1280_cmsv2_288489e8-06a3-5a15-8c75-6af297aa892a-8759680.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Head of the Freedom Party Herbert Kickl waves to supporters at a final election campaign event in Vienna, September 27, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2019 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He has promoted an \"Austria first\" strategy in his politics saying his aim wasn\u2019t to \"save the entire world\".<\/p>\n<p>Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party since 2021, has his sights set on the Chancellor\u2019s seat, but if his party fails to secure an outright majority, finding coalition partners could be tricky.<\/p>\n<p>Polling second at around 24% is the liberal conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6sterreichische Volkspartei) led by incumbent Chancellor Karl Nehammer.<\/p>\n<p>At his campaign rally on Friday, he delivered a warning to voters concerned by the prospect of a victory by the Freedom Party.<\/p>\n<p>\"Every vote, for example for a small party, harbours the risk that Herbert Kickl will become chancellor,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"This means that anyone who wants to prevent this has one option, namely to vote for Karl Nehammer.\"<\/p>\n<p>Nehammer has ruled out entering into a coalition with Kickl, who drew criticism after using the term 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor of the people, which was used by the Nazis to describe Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665336260227499\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//96//80//808x539_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg/" alt=\"A protester holds a banner at an anti-right wing protest in Vienna, September 27, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/1920x1280_cmsv2_8e7ba5f0-195d-5622-9d94-9c53754475b5-8759680.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A protester holds a banner at an anti-right wing protest in Vienna, September 27, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andreea Alexandru\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I have made it clear with whom it is not possible to form a responsible, viable government. The current leader of the FP\u00d6 (Freedom Party of Austria) does not fulfil these criteria. That's why I excluded him,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei \u00d6sterreichs), headed by Andreas Babler, are polling in third place, expected to take around 20% of the vote. Their final campaign rallies ahead of Sunday's vote are expected to take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top five are NEOS, the Greens and the BIER Party.<\/p>\n<p>NEOS was formed a decade ago following a merger with the Liberal Forum and has campaigned on promises to recruit 20,000 new teachers, reduce tax burdens on citizens and increase political transparency.<\/p>\n<p>Party leader Beate Meinl-Resinger said people of all ages were enthusiastic about what her party was offering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1839682374898217211\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I want us to look ahead, look to the future and create optimism and confidence in Austria again, to say that things will get better and that there is a future that is better than today,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tied almost neck and neck in the polls with NEOS are the Greens (Die Gr\u00fcnen) led by Werner Kogler who also serves as Austria's Vice Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>At his party's campaign rally on Friday, he praised the achievements of the Green team as the junior party in the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\"When has there ever been such a strong government team from a parliamentary group in this republic? But now, of course, it's about the future,\" he told supporters in Vienna.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727483224,"updatedAt":1727487007,"publishedAt":1727484100,"firstPublishedAt":1727484100,"lastPublishedAt":1727484100,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/96\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_50c41367-f527-5dd9-83cd-69ea9d96738c-8759680.jpg","altText":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the People's Party attends his final election rally in Vienna, September 27, 2024","caption":"Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the People's Party attends his final election rally in Vienna, September 27, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Heinz-Peter Bader\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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AUSTRIA ELECTIONS PREVIEW","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Far-right FP\u00d6 leads as Austrians head to polls in pivotal election on Sunday","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Far right leads as Austrians head to polls in pivotal vote on Sunday","titleListing2":"Far-right FP\u00d6 leads as Austrians head to polls in pivotal election on Sunday","leadin":"The anti-immigrant Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) is leading in the polls \u2014 although it's unlikely to secure an absolute majority.","summary":"The anti-immigrant Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) is leading in the polls \u2014 although it's unlikely to secure an absolute majority.","keySentence":"","url":"far-right-fpo-leads-as-austrians-head-to-polls-in-pivotal-election-on-sunday","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/26\/far-right-fpo-leads-as-austrians-head-to-polls-in-pivotal-election-on-sunday","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Austrians will vote on Sunday in parliamentary elections, which polls suggest could be narrowly won by the country's far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) for the first time in the party's history. \n\nThe FP\u00d6, one of Europe's oldest far-right parties, is leading in polls with 28% of the vote, according to a survey carried out in early September by the Market-Lazarsfeld Institute. \n\nEven if the party were to win its predicted share, it is unlikely it would be able to form a majority. \n\nFinding a coalition partner with which to form a government might also be a challenge as several other parties, including the ruling conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP), have ruled entering a coalition as a junior partner with them.\n\nNevertheless, if the FP\u00d6 were to make it into power as a lead coalition partner, Austria would join several other European countries where the government is pushing further to the right after gaining support on an anti-immigration and broadly Eurosceptic platform.\n\nHow far-right is the FP\u00d6? \n\nThe FP\u00d6 and its leader Herbert Kickl's manifesto is anti-immigrant, decisively Eurosceptic and proposes a ban on what it describes as \"political Islam\". \n\nIts programme plans to cut provisions for asylum seekers and irregular migrants, as well as block family reunification visas in Austria. \n\nIt has also touted a commitment to \"remigration\" \u2014 a vaguely worded strategy of returning people to their country of origin, potentially including people born in Austria. \n\nIt has also said it is opposed to EU sanctions against Russia and providing Ukraine with further aid. \n\n\"With Kickl, the party entered the territory of the extreme-right, which is a badge he wears with pride,\" Valentina Ausserladscheider, assistant professor of economic sociology at the University of Vienna, told Euronews. \n\n\"He calls himself the 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor for the people, which is a problematic concept because of its link to the historical legacy of the Third Reich.\" \n\nFor others, however, Kickl's charisma has allowed him to tap into Austrians' concerns in a way that leaders of other parties have not. \n\n\"Kickl can be reflective, and in some ways is a better communicator than the other leaders of Austrian parties,\" Heinisch Reinhard, professor of comparative Austrian politics at the University of Salzburg, said. \n\nThe FP\u00d6 are not strangers to the Austrian public, having twice been the junior partner in governing coalitions. \n\n\"Not too long ago they were in a coalition with the leading conservative party, who already moved the country to the right on points such as integration and EU scepticism,\" Reinhard said. \n\n\"Ideologically, the FP\u00d6 are not particularly dogmatic, apart from their stance on immigration, but tend to successfully incorporate grievances that Austrians have. They tend to look towards Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Hungary's model.\" \n\nWhat are Austrians concerned about? \n\nThe cost of living and immigration are the two main concerns facing Austrians, according to a survey conducted by the European Commission in autumn 2023. \n\nThe country has traditionally adopted a hard-line stance on migration, with tougher immigration rules featured in the manifestos of the three parties polling the highest in the run-up to the election.\n\nThe far right has blamed migration and the war in Ukraine for Austria's high inflation rate, which has been stuck above the EU's average for almost two years as growth has been sluggish. \n\n\"The FP\u00d6 has successfully managed to blame the government for the way it has dealt with key issues,\" Ausserladscheider said. \n\n\"It has been able to take these more geopolitical problems and break them down in a way that suggests it's something that hurts the Austrian people, which had worked when you did see energy prices rising, and the pressure of inflation hitting people.\" \n\nThe party has drawn on the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, sharply criticising Austria's incumbent ruling coalition for the way it handled the latter portion of the pandemic, framing it as an unacceptable curtailing of citizen freedoms and stoking conspiracy theories about the effectiveness of Austria's vaccination campaign. \n\nWhat happens next? \n\nThe party has found difficulty retaining allies in Austrian politics, with the \u00d6VP publicly ruling out the possibility it would enter a coalition with the FP\u00d6 as a junior partner. \n\nThe \u00d6VP, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), and the Green and liberal political party NEOS may, however, decide to work with the FP\u00d6, depending on the election result. \n\n\"We have seen on a regional level, party's say they will not work with the FP\u00d6 before the election, but end up doing so,\" Ausserladscheider said.\n\nAfter polls close at 5 pm Sunday and the final votes are counted, the largest party in the new parliament is traditionally asked to form a government. Coalition negotiations could potentially stretch over months. \n\nIf the FP\u00d6 manages to form a coalition, it would join several other far-right parties in power across Europe.\n\n\"It's potentially problematic for the European Union project because the more nationalist, anti-European parties are in governments, the less likely it is the European project will survive, and the Union will be less integrated on specific measures.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Austrians will vote on Sunday in parliamentary elections, which polls suggest could be narrowly won by the country's far-right Freedom Party (FP\u00d6) for the first time in the party's history. <\/p>\n<p>The FP\u00d6, one of Europe's oldest far-right parties, is leading in polls with 28% of the vote, according to a survey carried out in early September by the Market-Lazarsfeld Institute. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the party were to win its predicted share, it is unlikely it would be able to form a majority. <\/p>\n<p>Finding a coalition partner with which to form a government might also be a challenge as several other parties, including the ruling conservative Austrian People's Party (\u00d6VP), have ruled entering a coalition as a junior partner with them.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, if the FP\u00d6 were to make it into power as a lead coalition partner, Austria would join several other European countries where the government is pushing further to the right after gaining support on an anti-immigration and broadly Eurosceptic platform.<\/p>\n<h2>How far-right is the FP\u00d6?<\/h2><p>The FP\u00d6 and its leader Herbert Kickl's manifesto is anti-immigrant, decisively Eurosceptic and proposes a ban on what it describes as \"political Islam\". <\/p>\n<p>Its programme plans to cut provisions for asylum seekers and irregular migrants, as well as block family reunification visas in Austria. <\/p>\n<p>It has also touted a commitment to \"remigration\" \u2014 a vaguely worded strategy of returning people to their country of origin, potentially including people born in Austria. <\/p>\n<p>It has also said it is opposed to EU sanctions against Russia and providing Ukraine with further aid. <\/p>\n<p>\"With Kickl, the party entered the territory of the extreme-right, which is a badge he wears with pride,\" Valentina Ausserladscheider, assistant professor of economic sociology at the University of Vienna, told Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>\"He calls himself the 'Volkskanzler', or chancellor for the people, which is a problematic concept because of its link to the historical legacy of the Third Reich.\" <\/p>\n<p>For others, however, Kickl's charisma has allowed him to tap into Austrians' concerns in a way that leaders of other parties have not. <\/p>\n<p>\"Kickl can be reflective, and in some ways is a better communicator than the other leaders of Austrian parties,\" Heinisch Reinhard, professor of comparative Austrian politics at the University of Salzburg, said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.677734375\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//75//34//00//808x546_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg/" alt=\"Herbert Kickl of Austria's Freedom Party in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/384x260_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/640x434_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/750x508_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/828x561_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/1080x732_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/1200x813_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/1920x1301_cmsv2_29fca1ca-b8c2-5969-b753-36fe10db97af-8753400.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Herbert Kickl of Austria's Freedom Party in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ronald Zak\/Copyright 2016 The AP. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The FP\u00d6 are not strangers to the Austrian public, having twice been the junior partner in governing coalitions. <\/p>\n<p>\"Not too long ago they were in a coalition with the leading conservative party, who already moved the country to the right on points such as integration and EU scepticism,\" Reinhard said. <\/p>\n<p>\"Ideologically, the FP\u00d6 are not particularly dogmatic, apart from their stance on immigration, but tend to successfully incorporate grievances that Austrians have. They tend to look towards Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Hungary's model.\" <\/p>\n<h2>What are Austrians concerned about?<\/h2><p>The cost of living and immigration are the two main concerns facing Austrians, according to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////europa.eu//eurobarometer//surveys//detail//3053/">survey conducted by the European Commission in autumn 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The country has traditionally adopted a hard-line<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//21//austrian-chancellor-hails-uk-for-its-pioneer-rwanda-deportation-plan/"> stance<\/a> on migration, with tougher immigration rules featured in the manifestos of the three parties polling the highest in the run-up to the election.<\/p>\n<p>The far right has blamed migration and the war in Ukraine for Austria's high inflation rate, which has been stuck above the EU's average for almost two years as growth has been sluggish. <\/p>\n<p>\"The FP\u00d6 has successfully managed to blame the government for the way it has dealt with key issues,\" Ausserladscheider said. <\/p>\n<p>\"It has been able to take these more geopolitical problems and break them down in a way that suggests it's something that hurts the Austrian people, which had worked when you did see energy prices rising, and the pressure of inflation hitting people.\" <\/p>\n<p>The party has drawn on the outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic, sharply criticising Austria's incumbent ruling coalition for the way it handled the latter portion of the pandemic, framing it as an unacceptable curtailing of citizen freedoms and stoking conspiracy theories about the effectiveness of Austria's vaccination campaign. <\/p>\n<h2>What happens next?<\/h2><p>The party has found difficulty retaining allies in Austrian politics, with the \u00d6VP publicly ruling out the possibility it would enter a coalition with the FP\u00d6 as a junior partner. <\/p>\n<p>The \u00d6VP, the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SP\u00d6), and the Green and liberal political party NEOS may, however, decide to work with the FP\u00d6, depending on the election result. <\/p>\n<p>\"We have seen on a regional level, party's say they will not work with the FP\u00d6 before the election, but end up doing so,\" Ausserladscheider said.<\/p>\n<p>After polls close at 5 pm Sunday and the final votes are counted, the largest party in the new parliament is traditionally asked to form a government. Coalition negotiations could potentially stretch over months. <\/p>\n<p>If the FP\u00d6 manages to form a coalition, it would join several other far-right parties in power across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's potentially problematic for the European Union project because the more nationalist, anti-European parties are in governments, the less likely it is the European project will survive, and the Union will be less integrated on specific measures.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727252542,"updatedAt":1727458858,"publishedAt":1727350896,"firstPublishedAt":1727350896,"lastPublishedAt":1727458858,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/75\/34\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_eb145ca0-769d-58d7-bcbc-003d0005d27c-8753400.jpg","altText":"FILE: Supporters wave Austrian flags during the final election campaign event of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) for the European elections in Vienna, 24 May 2019","caption":"FILE: Supporters wave Austrian flags during 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EUROPE CLIMATE WARNING","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Wetter atmosphere may have exacerbated Central European floods, climatologist says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Wetter air caused by climate change likely worsening extreme weather","titleListing2":"Wetter atmosphere may have exacerbated Central European floods, climatologist says","leadin":"Geosphere Austria climatologist Marc Olefs said that the fossil fuel industry is to blame for the exacerbation of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall as seen over Europe over the past couple of weeks.","summary":"Geosphere Austria climatologist Marc Olefs said that the fossil fuel industry is to blame for the exacerbation of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall as seen over Europe over the past couple of weeks.","keySentence":"","url":"wetter-atmosphere-may-have-exacerbated-central-european-floods-climatologist-says","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/09\/23\/wetter-atmosphere-may-have-exacerbated-central-european-floods-climatologist-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Flooding triggered by Storm Boris has ripped through Central Europe over recent weeks, devastating homes and public infrastructure and leading to dozens of deaths. \n\nIt is estimated over a billion euros will be needed to rebuild parts of the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Austria \u2014 as well as time.\n\nIn a normal year, up to 430 litres of rain usually falls in the Saint Poelten area of Austria's south for six to nine months. But this year, that volume fell within a few days.\n\nIt is well-documented that manmade-induced climate change induces extreme weather events. Marc Olefs, the head of climate research at Geosphere Austria, the country's Federal Institute for Geology, Geophysics, Climatology and Meteorology, links climbing temperatures and what is happening right now over Central Europe.\n\n\"The entire area above Central Europe, both the oceans and the land masses, are now two to three degrees warmer compared to pre-industrial times due to man-made intervention, through the emission of greenhouse gases that affect the climate,\" he said.\n\nAs a result of this, polar air masses \u2014 as well as Mediterranean air masses \u2014 are two to three degrees warmer and are primed to absorb up to 7% more water vapour in certain conditions, Olefs explained. \n\nThis means the air can absorb up to 20% more water vapour compared to pre-industrial times, and lead to disastrous effects.\n\n\"Both high-pressure areas and low-pressure areas tend to last longer in summer and can therefore be more intense,\" he said.\n\n\"Imagine a hair dryer or a watering can that you hold on the same spot for too long. What happens? It burns or the water spills over,\" he added.\n\nThe answer to the solution for Olefs is clear: \"Reduce emissions as quickly as possible\". \n\nHe said that the fossil fuel industry is to blame for the exacerbation of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall as seen over Europe over the past couple of weeks.\n\n\"It is absolutely essential to be climate-neutral by the middle of the century at the latest \u2014 that is the only way to avoid a further intensification of these events,\" Olefs said.\n\nAustrian President Alexander Van der Bellen commended the emergency service efforts deployed as part of the clean-up and rescue operations on social media platform X. \n\n\"Even if the whole country is underwater, it will not sink,\" he said.\n\nLast week European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pledged billions of euros in aid for the Central European countries swamped by the deadly floods.\n\n\"These are extraordinary times, and extraordinary times need extraordinary measures,\" she said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Flooding triggered by Storm Boris has ripped through Central Europe over recent weeks, devastating homes and public infrastructure and leading to dozens of deaths. <\/p>\n<p>It is estimated over a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//09//18//deadly-floods-in-europe-how-much-is-it-going-to-cost/">billion euros<\/strong><\/a> will be needed to rebuild parts of the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Austria \u2014 as well as time.<\/p>\n<p>In a normal year, up to 430 litres of rain usually falls in the Saint Poelten area of Austria's south for six to nine months. But this year, that volume fell within a few days.<\/p>\n<p>It is well-documented that manmade-induced climate change induces extreme weather events. Marc Olefs, the head of climate research at Geosphere Austria, the country's Federal Institute for Geology, Geophysics, Climatology and Meteorology, links climbing temperatures and what is happening right now over Central Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\"The entire area above Central Europe, both the oceans and the land masses, are now two to three degrees warmer compared to pre-industrial times due to man-made intervention, through the emission of greenhouse gases that affect the climate,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this, polar air masses \u2014 as well as Mediterranean air masses \u2014 are two to three degrees warmer and are primed to absorb up to 7% more water vapour in certain conditions, Olefs explained. <\/p>\n<p>This means the air can absorb up to 20% more water vapour compared to pre-industrial times, and lead to disastrous effects.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8747516,8746818,8744918\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//09//19//eu-chief-visits-flood-stricken-region-in-poland-and-pledges-billions-in-swift-aid/">EU Commission chief visits flood-stricken region in Poland and pledges billions in swift aid<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//09//21//czechs-vote-in-senate-and-regional-elections-in-the-aftermath-of-massive-flooding/">Czechs vote in Senate and regional elections in the aftermath of massive flooding<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//09//21//thousands-displaced-as-flooding-washes-away-home-in-romanian-county-of-galati/">Thousands displaced as flooding washes away home in Romanian county of Galati<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Both high-pressure areas and low-pressure areas tend to last longer in summer and can therefore be more intense,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Imagine a hair dryer or a watering can that you hold on the same spot for too long. What happens? It burns or the water spills over,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the solution for Olefs is clear: \"Reduce emissions as quickly as possible\". <\/p>\n<p>He said that the fossil fuel industry is to blame for the exacerbation of extreme weather events, including heavy rainfall as seen over Europe over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is absolutely essential to be climate-neutral by the middle of the century at the latest \u2014 that is the only way to avoid a further intensification of these events,\" Olefs said.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen commended the emergency service efforts deployed as part of the clean-up and rescue operations on social media platform X. <\/p>\n<p>\"Even if the whole country is underwater, it will not sink,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pledged billions of euros in aid for the Central European countries swamped by the deadly floods.<\/p>\n<p>\"These are extraordinary times, and extraordinary times need extraordinary measures,\" she said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1727094120,"updatedAt":1727106470,"publishedAt":1727099837,"firstPublishedAt":1727099837,"lastPublishedAt":1727099837,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/74\/94\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d11d5105-e04a-5572-ab66-b37fbe7f570e-8749494.jpg","altText":"A view of a damaged house after recent floods near Pisecna, Czech Republic, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.","caption":"A view of a damaged house after recent floods near Pisecna, Czech Republic, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2958,"urlSafeValue":"skujins","title":"Angela Skujins","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":5899,"slug":"central-europe","urlSafeValue":"central-europe","title":"Central 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GLACIER - Master","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Rockslides, toxic sediments and vegetation changes: How melting alpine glaciers impact valleys","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What's changing as Alpine glaciers melt?","titleListing2":"Rockslides, toxic sediments and vegetation changes: How melting alpine glaciers impact valleys","leadin":"In this episode of Climate Now we ask how the Alps are changing as temperatures rise. Melting glaciers mean more sediment in rivers, including potentially harmful substances like uranium and nickel. The rising risk of rockfalls forces high mountain footpaths to be closed.","summary":"In this episode of Climate Now we ask how the Alps are changing as temperatures rise. Melting glaciers mean more sediment in rivers, including potentially harmful substances like uranium and nickel. The rising risk of rockfalls forces high mountain footpaths to be closed.","keySentence":"","url":"rockslides-toxic-sediments-and-vegetation-changes-how-melting-alpine-glaciers-impact-valle","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/09\/23\/rockslides-toxic-sediments-and-vegetation-changes-how-melting-alpine-glaciers-impact-valle","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The sound of melting is all around us as we arrive on the Stubai glacier in Austria. Today the ice may lose a centimetre or two of depth, because the sun is shining and temperatures are well above zero. As we walk slowly from the ski lift, glaciologist Andrea Fischer warns us to watch out for holes and cracks in the icy mud.\n\nHere at an altitude of 2900 metres above sea level, the effects of climate change are obvious to see. The ski station has placed plastic sheeting across a key part of the slope to protect the ice that's essential for the lifts used by winter tourists. Elsewhere, water trickles away to the valley below, and in the distance, every five minutes or so, we hear the ominous crack of rocks falling down the slope. The stones could easily kill someone, and visitors are kept well away.\u00a0\n\nWithin 20 years this glacier will be gone, like many others in this part of the Alps, which is one of the fastest warming regions of Europe.\u00a0\n\n\"Today we see no snow, no firn, no new ice can form. We have exposed rocks in the middle of the glacier. The glacier has become very thin and will disappear completely in the next few years,\" Andrea tells us.\u00a0\n\nShe has been coming here for decades, and happily acknowledges that in the distant past there were trees growing close to where we stand, as the Earth's climate was warmer due to long-term natural cycles.\u00a0\n\nHowever, what's happening today is nature's response to human activity. \"This change that we are seeing here is 100% due to man-made climate change, which is leading to this very strong glacier retreat since 2000,\" she says.\n\nOur visit to the Austrian Tyrol comes as the Copernicus Climate Change Service published data showing that Europe just had its warmest summer on record. The period from June to August was the warmest ever on a global scale, with temperatures 0.7 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.\n\nThe summer period was wetter than average in western and northern Europe, and drier than average in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.\u00a0\n\nWe head downhill from the glacier to learn more about the effects of the rising temperatures. One of the most far-reaching impacts is the increase in fine sediment in mountain streams as the melting glaciers and thawing permafrost grind the rocks and draw tiny particles down with the water.\u00a0\n\nThe water is almost white, earning it the name Gletschermilch, or Glacier Milk. It looks pretty, but it's a major headache for the turbines of hydroelectric dams and other water-consuming industries downstream. The fine dust also contains potentially harmful chemicals such as uranium and nickel from within the Alpine rock. These could contaminate water sources, so authorities keep a watchful eye on concentrations.\u00a0\n\nThawing permafrost above 2,500 metres has led to a rise in rockslides in recent decades. Such events have always happened here, but they have become more frequent and unpredictable.\n\nAlthough tourists in the lower valleys can safely enjoy the trails, the head of the mountain rescue team in the village of Galt\u00fcr says the situation at high altitude is complicated by climate change, particularly the shift from snow to rain.\n\n\"It used to be safer because we had a lot more snow. That meant that you could use the ascent routes or an emergency descent route in the snow gullies without rockfalls,\" says Christian Walter.\n\n\"All that doesn't exist anymore. And now the emergency descent routes are no longer possible because we have so much rockfall and so much loose rubble that you are no longer safe.\"\n\nSuch dangers may only last a few decades, because once the ice is gone these mountains will be covered by stabilising green plants, even at high altitude.\n\nAs Andrea Fischer says, the Alps are changing colour: \"We now have a switch from white to a dark grey and that will soon turn green. Even from space with remote sensing you can already see the greening of the Alps. It will be lush green in all altitude zones.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The sound of melting is all around us as we arrive on the Stubai glacier in Austria. Today the ice may lose a centimetre or two of depth, because the sun is shining and temperatures are well above zero. As we walk slowly from the ski lift, glaciologist Andrea Fischer warns us to watch out for holes and cracks in the icy mud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//71//62//66//808x454_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg/" alt=\"Glaciologist Andrea Fischer examines the water quality\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/384x216_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/640x360_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/750x422_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/828x466_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1080x608_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1200x675_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1920x1080_cmsv2_5dc55cfa-4ef3-560a-814f-45d47648a453-8716266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Glaciologist Andrea Fischer examines the water quality<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here at an altitude of 2900 metres above sea level, the effects of climate change are obvious to see. The ski station has placed plastic sheeting across a key part of the slope to protect the ice that's essential for the lifts used by winter tourists. Elsewhere, water trickles away to the valley below, and in the distance, every five minutes or so, we hear the ominous crack of rocks falling down the slope. The stones could easily kill someone, and visitors are kept well away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//71//62//66//808x454_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg/" alt=\"The Stubai glacier will be gone within 20 years\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/384x216_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/640x360_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/750x422_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/828x466_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1080x608_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1200x675_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1920x1080_cmsv2_6e66a91a-2dfa-5887-a5c0-4eaa48d3f532-8716266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Stubai glacier will be gone within 20 years<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Within 20 years this glacier will be gone, like many others in this part of the Alps, which is one of the fastest warming regions of Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Today we see no snow, no firn, no new ice can form. We have exposed rocks in the middle of the glacier. The glacier has become very thin and will disappear completely in the next few years,\" Andrea tells us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She has been coming here for decades, and happily acknowledges that in the distant past there were trees growing close to where we stand, as the Earth's climate was warmer due to long-term natural cycles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, what's happening today is nature's response to human activity. \"This change that we are seeing here is 100% due to man-made climate change, which is leading to this very strong glacier retreat since 2000,\" she says.<\/p>\n<p>Our visit to the Austrian Tyrol comes as the Copernicus Climate Change Service published data showing that Europe just had its warmest summer on record. The period from June to August was the warmest ever on a global scale, with temperatures 0.7 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//71//62//66//808x454_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg/" alt=\"The period from June to August was the warmest on record globally\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/384x216_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/640x360_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/750x422_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/828x466_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1080x608_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1200x675_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1920x1080_cmsv2_c41adf0e-7b77-5d2f-a34b-80aa74f66e89-8716266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The period from June to August was the warmest on record globally<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//71//62//66//808x454_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg/" alt=\"Monthly surface air temperature anomaly since 1979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/384x216_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/640x360_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/750x422_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/828x466_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1080x608_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1200x675_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1920x1080_cmsv2_233adb02-9039-5211-b400-41449a8dd906-8716266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Monthly surface air temperature anomaly since 1979<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The summer period was wetter than average in western and northern Europe, and drier than average in eastern Europe and the Mediterranean.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We head downhill from the glacier to learn more about the effects of the rising temperatures. One of the most far-reaching impacts is the increase in fine sediment in mountain streams as the melting glaciers and thawing permafrost grind the rocks and draw tiny particles down with the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The water is almost white, earning it the name <em>Gletschermilch,<\/em> or Glacier Milk. It looks pretty, but it's a major headache for the turbines of hydroelectric dams and other water-consuming industries downstream. The fine dust also contains potentially harmful chemicals such as uranium and nickel from within the Alpine rock. These could contaminate water sources, so authorities keep a watchful eye on concentrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thawing permafrost above 2,500 metres has led to a rise in rockslides in recent decades. Such events have always happened here, but they have become more frequent and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>Although tourists in the lower valleys can safely enjoy the trails, the head of the mountain rescue team in the village of Galt\u00fcr says the situation at high altitude is complicated by climate change, particularly the shift from snow to rain.<\/p>\n<p>\"It used to be safer because we had a lot more snow. That meant that you could use the ascent routes or an emergency descent route in the snow gullies without rockfalls,\" says Christian Walter.<\/p>\n<p>\"All that doesn't exist anymore. And now the emergency descent routes are no longer possible because we have so much rockfall and so much loose rubble that you are no longer safe.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//71//62//66//808x454_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg/" alt=\"Small plants are colonising higher altitudes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/384x216_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/640x360_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/750x422_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/828x466_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1080x608_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1200x675_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/62\/66\/1920x1080_cmsv2_73544bda-42ff-559b-9dc4-8f2880cdad3f-8716266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Small plants are colonising higher altitudes<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Such dangers may only last a few decades, because once the ice is gone these mountains will be covered by stabilising green plants, even at high altitude.<\/p>\n<p>As Andrea Fischer says, the Alps are changing colour: \"We now have a switch from white to a dark grey and that will soon turn green. Even from space with remote sensing you can already see the greening of the Alps. 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POLICE RAIDS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Austria raids alleged Islamist extremists in run-up to anniversary of 9\/11 terror attacks","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Austrian security forces raid 72 alleged Islamic extremists","titleListing2":"Austria raids alleged Islamist extremists in run-up to anniversary of 9\/11 terror attacks","leadin":"Tuesday's raids came a month after authorities foiled a plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna which were subsequently cancelled.","summary":"Tuesday's raids came a month after authorities foiled a plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna which were subsequently cancelled.","keySentence":"","url":"austria-raids-alleged-islamist-extremists-in-run-up-to-anniversary-of-911-terror-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/12\/austria-raids-alleged-islamist-extremists-in-run-up-to-anniversary-of-911-terror-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Austrian security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamist extremists in the run-up to the 23rd anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks in New York, citing the potential for copycat violence on the date of the plane hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people.\n\nThe raids occurred across the country on Tuesday, before Wednesday's anniversary. The 2001 terror attack remains symbolic for extremists and has inspired copycat attempts, the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence said in a statement.\n\nAuthorities thwarted an attempted attack on the anniversary last year at Vienna\u2019s central station and the risk remains high on the date around the world, it said.\n\n\"Measures have been taken against 72 people. A total of four house searches were carried out, 39 detention room searches, five interviews with suspects, where there was a concrete suspicion, so that the suspects were also interviewed. And 20 so-called threat interviews were also carried out,\" explained Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner.\n\nKarner also said that 52 of the 72 people targeted in the raids are already in prison.\n\n\"These are also important consistent measures because we simply see, both the judiciary and our investigating authorities, that we know and see again and again that some people ultimately become radicalized in prison,\" he said.\n\nTuesday's raids came a month after authorities foiled a plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna which were subsequently cancelled.\n\nAustrian officials said the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian man, was inspired by the so-called Islamic State group and\u00a0intended to kill thousands of people.\n\nThe 19-year-old had allegedly uploaded to the internet\u00a0an oath of allegiance to the current leader of the Islamic State group.\n\nAuthorities said they also found Islamic State group and al-Qaeda material at the home of a second suspect, who is 17.\n\nTuesday's operation also included raids on several prisons in Austria, as well as interrogations of suspects and seizures of digital devices such as cell phones to look for evidence of radical Islamic propaganda.\n\nFranz Ruf, Austria's director general for public security, appeared to reference the Taylor Swift plot in a statement, saying the last few weeks have shown the importance of cooperation between security agencies to counter extremism.\n\nInterior Minister Gerhard Karner also called for stronger powers for investigators to be able to root out such plots.\n\n\"The clear signal is that Islamist extremists have no place here and we are taking decisive action against them,\" he said.\n\nCurrently, Austrian officials often rely on other countries \u2014 such as for the Swift concerts where\u00a0the CIA uncovered the plot \u2014 because unlike some foreign intelligence services, Austria is not legally allowed to monitor text messages.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Austrian security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamist extremists in the run-up to the 23rd anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks in New York, citing the potential for copycat violence on the date of the plane hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The raids occurred across the country on Tuesday, before Wednesday's anniversary. The 2001 terror attack remains symbolic for extremists and has inspired copycat attempts, the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities thwarted an attempted attack on the anniversary last year at Vienna\u2019s central station and the risk remains high on the date around the world, it said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1834195419854716969\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Measures have been taken against 72 people. A total of four house searches were carried out, 39 detention room searches, five interviews with suspects, where there was a concrete suspicion, so that the suspects were also interviewed. And 20 so-called threat interviews were also carried out,\" explained Interior Minister, Gerhard Karner.<\/p>\n<p>Karner also said that 52 of the 72 people targeted in the raids are already in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\"These are also important consistent measures because we simply see, both the judiciary and our investigating authorities, that we know and see again and again that some people ultimately become radicalized in prison,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday's raids came a month after authorities foiled a plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna which were subsequently cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Austrian officials said the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian man, was inspired by the so-called Islamic State group and\u00a0intended to kill thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old had allegedly uploaded to the internet\u00a0an oath of allegiance to the current leader of the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they also found Islamic State group and al-Qaeda material at the home of a second suspect, who is 17.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6697604144183035\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//64//10//10//808x542_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg/" alt=\"Austrian police officers watch Taylor Swift fans gathering in the city centre in Vienna, August 8, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/384x257_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/640x429_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/750x502_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/828x555_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/1080x723_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/1200x804_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/64\/10\/10\/1920x1286_cmsv2_7b9f2ff4-1aed-5ea0-a9d3-b51b42151e1d-8641010.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Austrian police officers watch Taylor Swift fans gathering in the city centre in Vienna, August 8, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tuesday's operation also included raids on several prisons in Austria, as well as interrogations of suspects and seizures of digital devices such as cell phones to look for evidence of radical Islamic propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Franz Ruf, Austria's director general for public security, appeared to reference the Taylor Swift plot in a statement, saying the last few weeks have shown the importance of cooperation between security agencies to counter extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Gerhard Karner also called for stronger powers for investigators to be able to root out such plots.<\/p>\n<p>\"The clear signal is that Islamist extremists have no place here and we are taking decisive action against them,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Austrian officials often rely on other countries \u2014 such as for the Swift concerts where\u00a0the CIA uncovered the plot \u2014 because unlike some foreign intelligence services, Austria is not legally allowed to monitor text messages.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1726170341,"updatedAt":1726202464,"publishedAt":1726177889,"firstPublishedAt":1726177889,"lastPublishedAt":1726202464,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/66\/08\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_be155c90-b2ae-5ac9-93b3-b3a415936184-8726608.jpg","altText":"Police officers guard the scene of an attack in Vienna, November 3, 2020","caption":"Police officers guard the scene of an attack in Vienna, November 3, 2020","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Matthias Schrader\/Copyright 2019 The AP. 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MOST LIVEABLE CITY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"What's the secret to making Vienna the world's most liveable city?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What makes Vienna the world's most liveable city?","titleListing2":"Vienna ranked most liveable city in the world for its third consecutive year","leadin":"The Austrian capital ranks highly for stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.","summary":"The Austrian capital ranks highly for stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.","keySentence":"","url":"what-makes-vienna-the-worlds-most-liveable-city","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2024\/09\/11\/what-makes-vienna-the-worlds-most-liveable-city","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Vienna has long been synonymous with art, culture, and fine dining. \n\nThe Austrian capital's popularity amongst tourists can attest to its long-enduring reputation as a place of beauty and entertainment, with 2023 seeing over 17 million overnight stays from visitors, almost reaching pre-pandemic levels.\n\nFor the more than two million living within the metropolitan area of Vienna, the city is marked by its affordability, access to healthcare and education, comparably low rents, and green spaces, amongst other factors. \n\nThis is why for the third year running the city has been marked as the \"world's most liveable\" city, according to an\u00a0annual index\u00a0compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of British publication\u00a0The Economist.\n\nAmong the 173 cities analysed, Europe fills out the top three: Copenhagen, Denmark came second and Zurich, Switzerland third.\n\nWhat makes Vienna so liveable?\n\nIt's not only the EIU's rankings that Vienna tops, but Mercer's quality of living index, which has named Vienna number one for the past 10 years, as of 2023. \n\nThe city was also named European capital of democracy in 2023, and second in Monocle Magazine's quality of life survey.\n\n\"If you talk about surveys by Mercer or the Economist Intelligence Unit, they are very comprehensively looking into factors like availability of green space within a city, transportation or infrastructure in general,\" Nikolaus Gr\u00e4ser, spokesperson for the Vienna Tourist Board, told Euronews.\n\n\"I think Vienna indeed does tick many boxes, and as someone who lives here, Vienna is a very liveable city, it just works very well,\" he said. \"Vienna perfectly combines northern European efficiency and southern European lifestyle, and that involves a high degree of enjoyment, it's not so much of what you can do in the city but what you want to do.\"\n\nHow does the ranking work?\n\nThe EIU assesses \"livability\" through a rating system of zero to 100 looking at 30 factors, all under one of five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Each factor is designated acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable.\n\nThe scores are compiled and weighted to provide the final score, where one is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal. The liveability rating is provided both as an overall score and as a score for each category.\n\nAffordable housing\n\nWhen compared to capital cities London, Paris, and Berlin, Vienna stands as one of the few places where rent prices have remained relatively stable over the past decade, although still increasing over time. \n\nThe average rent, including bills, is \u20ac570 for a furnished private room, and \u20ac929 for a furnished studio apartment, according to global rental platform HousingAnywhere, with the average salary after tax being \u20ac34,188 yearly (or \u20ac2,849 monthly).\n\nThe city of Vienna is one of the largest landlords in Europe \u2014 city authorities own around one-quarter of the city\u2019s housing stock, representing 220,000 city-owned flats and 200,000 co-operative flats. \n\nRents are also regulated by the city government so that none of the residents pay any more than 20 to 25 per cent of their household income on rent when living within social housing, according to the US Office of Policy Development and Research.\n\nThe city also boasts low crime rates, coming third in the 2024 Global Peace Index, ahead of Switzerland and New Zealand.\n\nPublic transport and green spaces\n\nVienna's consistent ranking as a highly liveable city shows that it's well-functioning, has sound policy decisions at the top and is ready for the future, according to Mayor Michael Ludwig.\n\n\"Everyone in our city benefits from the high quality of life, the stability, and the reliable infrastructure,\" he said. \n\n\"These achievements are not least to the credit of everyone who works for this city every day\".\n\nApproximately 50 per cent of Vienna comprises of green spaces, including parks and forested areas, official city statistics say. \n\nMany of the vineyards grow grapes in the hills surrounding the city and are all accessible by public transport, which is heavily used \u2014 only one-third of the city\u2019s residents drive a car.\n\nAccording to Wiener Linien, the city\u2019s operator for public transport, 2.6 million people use the public transport system every day, with more than 100 underground stations scattered across the city. \n\nSome 73 per cent take public transport to work, 44 per cent walk, 13 per cent ride their bike, and only 33 per cent drive, as stated by Austria's Travel Portal.\n\nThe city holds 800 farms within its city limits, and almost half a million trees are under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Department of Parks and Gardens, making accessibility to nature extremely easy for residents of the city.\n\nPerhaps the city's greatest green asset is the Danube Island, which stands as a 21 km manmade island between the banks of the Danube River. \n\nOriginally built to prevent flooding within the city, it now acts as a non-car accessible, water sport and party spot, with the metro going directly to the island.\n\n\"If you're into water sport you can go next to Danube island for windsurfing, there's trails for mountain biking and hiking,\" Gr\u00e4ser told Euronews. \n\n\"And all that within 20 minutes reach of world-class culture and culinary delights and I think that\u2019s just the perfect combination for a place to live in\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Vienna has long been synonymous with art, culture, and fine dining. <\/p>\n<p>The Austrian capital's popularity amongst tourists can attest to its long-enduring reputation as a place of beauty and entertainment, with 2023 seeing over 17 million overnight stays from visitors, almost reaching pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>For the more than two million living within the metropolitan area of Vienna, the city is marked by its affordability, access to healthcare and education, comparably low rents, and green spaces, amongst other factors. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8591954\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//07//28//vienna-named-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-again-in-2024-with-europe-dominating-the-top-3/">Vienna named the world's most liveable city again in 2024 ahead of these European cities<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is why for the third year running the city has been marked as the \"world's most liveable\" city, according to an\u00a0annual index\u00a0compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of British publication\u00a0The Economist.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 173 cities analysed, Europe fills out the top three: Copenhagen, Denmark came second and Zurich, Switzerland third.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What makes Vienna so liveable?<\/strong><\/h2><p>It's not only the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2024//07//28//vienna-named-the-worlds-most-liveable-city-again-in-2024-with-europe-dominating-the-top-3/">EIU's rankings that Vienna tops<\/strong><\/a>, but Mercer's quality of living index, which has named Vienna number one for the past 10 years, as of 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The city was also named European capital of democracy in 2023, and second in Monocle Magazine's quality of life survey.<\/p>\n<p>\"If you talk about surveys by Mercer or the Economist Intelligence Unit, they are very comprehensively looking into factors like availability of green space within a city, transportation or infrastructure in general,\" Nikolaus Gr\u00e4ser, spokesperson for the Vienna Tourist Board, told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think Vienna indeed does tick many boxes, and as someone who lives here, Vienna is a very liveable city, it just works very well,\" he said. \"Vienna perfectly combines northern European efficiency and southern European lifestyle, and that involves a high degree of enjoyment, it's not so much of what you can do in the city but what you want to do.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//72//11//44//808x454_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg/" alt=\"People walk on the shopping street Kohlmarkt in Vienna.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/384x216_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/640x360_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/750x422_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/828x466_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1080x608_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1200x675_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1920x1080_cmsv2_be02e621-bc07-5f1e-9b86-b4847de4a28d-8721144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People walk on the shopping street Kohlmarkt in Vienna.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo \/ Theresa Wey<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>How does the ranking work?<\/strong><\/h2><p>The EIU assesses \"livability\" through a rating system of zero to 100 looking at 30 factors, all under one of five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. Each factor is designated acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>The scores are compiled and weighted to provide the final score, where one is considered intolerable and 100 is considered ideal. The liveability rating is provided both as an overall score and as a score for each category.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7928448\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//09//28//vienna-is-the-worlds-most-livable-city-heres-how-you-can-get-a-job-there/">Vienna is the world\u2019s most livable city \u2014 what's it like to work there?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Affordable housing<\/strong><\/h2><p>When compared to capital cities London, Paris, and Berlin, Vienna stands as one of the few places where rent prices have remained relatively stable over the past decade, although still increasing over time. <\/p>\n<p>The average rent, including bills, is \u20ac570 for a furnished private room, and \u20ac929 for a furnished studio apartment, according to global rental platform HousingAnywhere, with the average salary after tax being \u20ac34,188 yearly (or \u20ac2,849 monthly).<\/p>\n<p>The city of Vienna is one of the largest landlords in Europe \u2014 city authorities own around one-quarter of the city\u2019s housing stock, representing 220,000 city-owned flats and 200,000 co-operative flats. <\/p>\n<p>Rents are also regulated by the city government so that none of the residents pay any more than 20 to 25 per cent of their household income on rent when living within social housing, according to the US Office of Policy Development and Research.<\/p>\n<p>The city also boasts low crime rates, coming third in the 2024 Global Peace Index, ahead of Switzerland and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Public transport and green spaces<\/strong><\/h2><p>Vienna's consistent ranking as a highly liveable city shows that it's well-functioning, has sound policy decisions at the top and is ready for the future, according to Mayor Michael Ludwig.<\/p>\n<p>\"Everyone in our city benefits from the high quality of life, the stability, and the reliable infrastructure,\" he said. <\/p>\n<p>\"These achievements are not least to the credit of everyone who works for this city every day\".<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 50 per cent of Vienna comprises of green spaces, including parks and forested areas, official city statistics say. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8095194\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2023//12//08//this-years-eu-happiness-index-is-out-where-does-your-country-place/">This year's EU happiness index is out. Where does your country place?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many of the vineyards grow grapes in the hills surrounding the city and are all accessible by public transport, which is heavily used \u2014 only one-third of the city\u2019s residents drive a car.<\/p>\n<p>According to Wiener Linien<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.wienerlinien.at//media//files//2020//wl_betriebsangaben_2019_englisch_358275.pdf/">, the city\u2019s operator for public transport, 2.6 million people use the public transport system every day, with more than 100 underground stations scattered across the city. <\/p>\n<p>Some 73 per cent take public transport to work, 44 per cent walk, 13 per cent ride their bike, and only 33 per cent drive, as stated by Austria's Travel Portal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//72//11//44//808x454_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg/" alt=\"People enjoy a sunny afternoon in the Stadtpark garden, in Vienna.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/384x216_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/640x360_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/750x422_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/828x466_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1080x608_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1200x675_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/1920x1080_cmsv2_8828f6aa-267e-5c08-8473-5c9dcb44a533-8721144.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People enjoy a sunny afternoon in the Stadtpark garden, in Vienna.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo \/ Vadim Ghirda<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The city holds 800 farms within its city limits, and almost half a million trees are under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Department of Parks and Gardens, making accessibility to nature extremely easy for residents of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the city's greatest green asset is the Danube Island, which stands as a 21 km manmade island between the banks of the Danube River. <\/p>\n<p>Originally built to prevent flooding within the city, it now acts as a non-car accessible, water sport and party spot, with the metro going directly to the island.<\/p>\n<p>\"If you're into water sport you can go next to Danube island for windsurfing, there's trails for mountain biking and hiking,\" Gr\u00e4ser told Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>\"And all that within 20 minutes reach of world-class culture and culinary delights and I think that\u2019s just the perfect combination for a place to live in\".<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1726041557,"updatedAt":1726060752,"publishedAt":1726047538,"firstPublishedAt":1726047538,"lastPublishedAt":1726055832,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/72\/11\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_597fdddf-3fad-506f-8850-0b56d2756f8d-8721144.jpg","altText":"People walk in front of the City Hall in downtown Vienna.","caption":"People walk in front of the City Hall in downtown Vienna.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ronald Zak\/Copyright 2017 The AP. 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GLACIERS MELTING","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Global warming may melt some glaciers in Austria in 10-15 years","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Global warming may melt some glaciers in Austria in 10-15 years","titleListing2":"Global warming may melt some glaciers in Austria in 10-15 years","leadin":"Glaciologist Bernhard Zagel warns some glaciers around Salzburg have already lost half their ice in just 25 years.","summary":"Glaciologist Bernhard Zagel warns some glaciers around Salzburg have already lost half their ice in just 25 years.","keySentence":"","url":"salzburg-glaciers-may-vanish-in-10-15-years-due-to-rapid-climate-change-shrinkage","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/08\/salzburg-glaciers-may-vanish-in-10-15-years-due-to-rapid-climate-change-shrinkage","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Glacier researchers and hydrologists are currently surveying glaciers in Salzburg, Austria, and even if detailed data and measurement results are not yet fully available, it's clear that the glaciers have lost mass and size again this year.\n\nBernhard Zagel, a glacier researcher at the University of Salzburg, describes this loss of mass as enormous.\n\n\u201cWith eight to nine hours of sunshine, the glacier loses its height by around ten centimetres. That\u2019s enormous because ten centimetres of ice is lost per year. To make up for that, it would take ten metres of fresh snow, which would then turn into ice.\"\n\nZagel says the heavy snowfall in the Austrian Tauern mountains until spring and early summer did little to protect the glaciers, and he stressed that the amount of melting at altitudes like 3000 meters is at an incredible level. \n\n\"Thirty years ago, the ice lake on Sonnblickkees was just being created. Where there is now bare rock, there was ice ten metres thick back then - today the edge of the glacier is 600 meters away. And if you ask about the cause, whether it is the greenhouse effect, then I would actually like to turn that around and say that it is becoming increasingly difficult to prove that it is not the greenhouse effect.\u201d\n\nThe Stubacher Sonnblickkees at an altitude of 2,700 metres have lost 45 million cubic meters of ice in the past 25 years, which is half of its mass. The researchers assume that in ten years no glacier will be visible in the area.\n\n\"I assume that in ten years you won't be able to see a glacier anymore. We may still see small patches of ice but based on what we know about the geometry of the glacier, we can actually say with great certainty that we will hardly see them in the next 10 to 15 years,\" Zagel warns.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Glacier researchers and hydrologists are currently surveying glaciers in Salzburg, Austria, and even if detailed data and measurement results are not yet fully available, it's clear that the glaciers have lost mass and size again this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bernhard Zagel, a glacier researcher at the University of Salzburg, describes this loss of mass as enormous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith eight to nine hours of sunshine, the glacier loses its height by around ten centimetres. That\u2019s enormous because ten centimetres of ice is lost per year. To make up for that, it would take ten metres of fresh snow, which would then turn into ice.\"<\/p>\n<p>Zagel says the heavy snowfall in the Austrian Tauern mountains until spring and early summer did little to protect the glaciers, and he stressed that the amount of melting at altitudes like 3000 meters is at an incredible level. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8633642,8316222\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//08//06//it-made-me-cry-swiss-glacier-photos-taken-15-years-apart-reveal-staggering-loss/">/u2018It made me cry\u2019: Swiss glacier photos taken 15 years apart reveal staggering loss<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//19//ocean-heat-sea-level-rise-and-glacier-loss-wmo-report-reveals-how-2023-smashed-climate-rec/">Ocean heat, sea level rise and glacier loss: WMO report reveals how 2023 smashed climate records<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Thirty years ago, the ice lake on Sonnblickkees was just being created. Where there is now bare rock, there was ice ten metres thick back then - today the edge of the glacier is 600 meters away. And if you ask about the cause, whether it is the greenhouse effect, then I would actually like to turn that around and say that it is becoming increasingly difficult to prove that it is not the greenhouse effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1708661992746291445\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Stubacher Sonnblickkees at an altitude of 2,700 metres have lost 45 million cubic meters of ice in the past 25 years, which is half of its mass. The researchers assume that in ten years no glacier will be visible in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\"I assume that in ten years you won't be able to see a glacier anymore. We may still see small patches of ice but based on what we know about the geometry of the glacier, we can actually say with great certainty that we will hardly see them in the next 10 to 15 years,\" Zagel warns.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725724662,"updatedAt":1725814676,"publishedAt":1725775239,"firstPublishedAt":1725775239,"lastPublishedAt":1725814676,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/71\/22\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_90102e51-8a3c-552f-af30-aa802cbdfc4a-8712292.jpg","altText":"A photo of a glacier","caption":"A photo of a glacier","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Rodrigo Abd\/AP","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1142,"urlSafeValue":"aktan","title":"Sertac Aktan","twitter":"@sertac_aktan"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":14,"slug":"austria","urlSafeValue":"austria","title":"Austria","titleRaw":"Austria"},{"id":383,"slug":"global-warming-and-climate-change","urlSafeValue":"global-warming-and-climate-change","title":"Global warming and climate change","titleRaw":"Global warming and climate change"},{"id":22034,"slug":"glaciers","urlSafeValue":"glaciers","title":"glaciers","titleRaw":"glaciers"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"twitter","count":1},{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2624962},{"id":2629830}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"tFD3HO4sW4E","dailymotionId":"x95c4sa"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/09\/08\/en\/240908_E3SU_56456424_56460106_90440_141140_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":90440,"filesizeBytes":11767526,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/09\/08\/en\/240908_E3SU_56456424_56460106_90440_141140_en.mp4","editor":"","duration":90440,"filesizeBytes":17668838,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/europe-news\/europe-news"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"},"themes":[{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/my-europe\/europe-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":56,"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":14,"urlSafeValue":"austria","title":"Austria","url":"\/news\/europe\/austria"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":"'gv_safe','gb_safe','gb_safe_from_high','gb_safe_from_high_med','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_science','progressivemedia','gs_science_environ','gs_science_environment','gs_science_weather','gt_mixed','climatechange','gs_science_geography','neg_saudiaramco','gt_positive_curiosity'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/my-europe\/2024\/09\/08\/salzburg-glaciers-may-vanish-in-10-15-years-due-to-rapid-climate-change-shrinkage","lastModified":1725814676},{"id":2590714,"cid":8593792,"versionId":3,"archive":0,"housenumber":"240902_SRSU_56090878","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":1,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"SR-14-Healps 2 - 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Why? Nature is accessible, generous, varied, and healing for sick people.\u00a0\n\n\u201cI only have 60% of my breathing capacity left, so it has a huge impact on my daily life,\" says C\u00e9line Nerbl.\n\nThe concept, developed by doctors at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria, makes tourism rhyme with health.\u00a0\n\nHead of the Institute of Ecomedicine, Arnulf Hartl\u00a0explains that \"there are a lot of urban associated illnesses that could be treated in a health tourism format in the Alps. The alps are like a green island in a sea of fine dust.\"\u00a0\n\nCurative waterfalls\n\n380 meters high, the majestic Krimml waterfall in western Austria is the largest in Europe. The cloud of water it produces has been recognized for centuries for its therapeutic virtues.\u00a0\n\nThe village of Krimml offers cures for breathing the humid air. C\u00e9line and her husband regularly come to treat their asthma and chronic bronchitis.\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\u201cWe do a lot of breathing and inhalation exercises. It opens my bronchial tubes and since then I'm no longer congested at all,\" says C\u00e9line.\n\n\"Water droplets are 200 times smaller than those in an asthma spray. The small water droplets are inhaled, they are negatively charged, and they induce an immunological mode of action. They reduce the inflammation of the lungs,\" explains Dr. Hartl.\n\nHEALPS2 project\n\nThe professor, who specializes in ecological medicine, developed the HEALPS2 project on the basis of clinical studies.\u00a0\n\nHe is supported by the European Union's Cohesion Policy, which provides 85% of the \u20ac2,417,603 budget.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nIts team proposes to all Alpine countries - France, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland - to help local players list their natural resources.\u00a0\n\nThe aim is to develop an adapted therapeutic tourism offer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\"Everything which is very specific for the alpine region can be put into value in terms of health\u201d, the hiking trails, the better air, the cooler air in times of climate change and, other factors like alpine pastures, the raw milk products, the honey,\" says Hartl.\n\nNew economic opportunities\n\nIn Krimml, therapeutic tourism has given rise to new ideas: one hotel, for example, has been adapted for allergy sufferers. 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We were able to increase the number of guests by about 35%. The region is remote, but we could increase also the jobs in the region. Especially a lot of female, high qualified jobs, for people that now stay in the region,\" explains Silvia Northdurfter, vice head of Hohe Tauern Health.\n\nWith the lack of snow, the HEALPS2 project is also a chance for the lower ski resorts to \"breathe\".\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>People are heading to the Alps for better health. Why? Nature is accessible, generous, varied, and healing for sick people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only have 60% of my breathing capacity left, so it has a huge impact on my daily life,\" says C\u00e9line Nerbl.<\/p>\n<p>The concept, developed by doctors at the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria, makes tourism rhyme with health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Institute of Ecomedicine, Arnulf Hartl\u00a0explains that \"there are a lot of urban associated illnesses that could be treated in a health tourism format in the Alps. The alps are like a green island in a sea of fine dust.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Curative waterfalls<\/strong><\/h2><p>380 meters high, the majestic Krimml waterfall in western Austria is the largest in Europe. The cloud of water it produces has been recognized for centuries for its therapeutic virtues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The village of Krimml offers cures for breathing the humid air. C\u00e9line and her husband regularly come to treat their asthma and chronic bronchitis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cWe do a lot of breathing and inhalation exercises. It opens my bronchial tubes and since then I'm no longer congested at all,\" says C\u00e9line.<\/p>\n<p>\"Water droplets are 200 times smaller than those in an asthma spray. The small water droplets are inhaled, they are negatively charged, and they induce an immunological mode of action. 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And the village is coming back to life:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\"Our economic stakes have changed in the last 15 years since we are in this health tourism sector. We were able to increase the number of guests by about 35%. The region is remote, but we could increase also the jobs in the region. Especially a lot of female, high qualified jobs, for people that now stay in the region,\" explains Silvia Northdurfter, vice head of Hohe Tauern Health.<\/p>\n<p>With the lack of snow, the HEALPS2 project is also a chance for the lower ski resorts to 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ON DEPORTATIONS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Austria joins Germany in deporting Afghans with criminal records back home","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Austria to team up with Germany in joint deportations to Afghanistan","titleListing2":"Austria says it will work with Germany on joint deportations to Afghanistan of people with criminal records.","leadin":"Austria's Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the \"changed security situation\" in the country.","summary":"Austria's Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the \"changed security situation\" in the country.","keySentence":"","url":"austria-says-it-will-work-with-germany-on-joint-deportations-of-criminals-to-afghanistan","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/08\/31\/austria-says-it-will-work-with-germany-on-joint-deportations-of-criminals-to-afghanistan","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Following Germany's lead, Austria said it intends to start deporting Afghanistan nationals with criminal records back to their home country.\n\nThis comes after Germany deported 28 convicted criminals to Afghanistan on Friday, the first such deportations to the country since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.\n\nVienna says it intends to cooperate closely with Berlin on joint deportations.\n\n\"The minister of the interior has been in negotiations with the German minister of the interior for a very long time about how we can solve the problem of deportations to Afghanistan because Austria is also deporting Afghans and Syrians right now,\" said Chancellor Karl Nehammer.\n\nNow the next step is to be able to deport people directly to Afghanistan or Syria.\"\n\nAustrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner called Germany\u2019s decision \"very good\".\n\nIn March, he called for talks on whether to reassess the EU-wide ban on deportations to Afghanistan and Syria as \"necessary and urgent\".\n\n\"Currently, we are not able to repatriate anyone to countries like Syria or Afghanistan, as it would be against EU law,\" Karner said in Brussels in March. \"In\u00a0Austria, these two countries account for about three-quarters of all asylum applications.\"\n\n'I am pleased this is happening'\n\nAustria's Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has already said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the changed security situation in the country.\n\nIn a July ruling, the Constitutional Court confirmed that this assessment was made by the immigration authorities.\n\nThe ministry and the Federal Office for Foreign Affairs are working intensively on implementing deportations to Afghanistan, and talks are underway with several European countries.\n\n\"The fact that deportations to Afghanistan are possible again is a demand that I, that Austria, have been making for a long time, and I am therefore very pleased that this is happening. It is crucial that we deport people to Afghanistan and Syria again,\" Karner said on Friday. \n\n\"And that is why this will also happen departing from Austria in the future.\" \n\n\"The fact that a terrorist regime is in charge there, namely the Taliban, was the reason why it was suspended. That's why it's so important to work closely with partners in the region so that we can also bring people back to Kabul or Afghanistan directly,\" he added.\n\nHuman rights groups, such as Amnesty International, have criticised the move as a \"breach of international law\".\n\nSince the takeover of Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have been accused of systemic oppression against women and girls, sexual and other minorities, and acts of vengeance against purported collaborators with the previous, pro-Western regime.\n\n'We will not allow ourselves to be divided'\n\nLike Germany, Austria hasn't deported anyone directly to Afghanistan since 2021. The country has deported Afghan nationals before, but always to third countries.\n\nWhile the idea of joint deportations with Germany has found favour among many across Austria\u2019s political spectrum, some have cautioned that cases must be carefully scrutinised.\n\n\"We are strong as a society and will not allow ourselves to be divided by Islamism and terrorism,\" said Alma Zadi\u0107, the minister of justice for the Greens.\n\n\"We have strong laws, we have tough laws and these must be applied in this case. And all constitutional options must be exhausted, even when it comes to deportations.\" \n\nAlmost 9,000 Afghan nationals applied for asylum in Austria last year, according to the Austrian immigration agency.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Following Germany's lead, Austria said it intends to start deporting Afghanistan nationals with criminal records back to their home country.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Germany deported 28 convicted criminals to Afghanistan on Friday, the first such deportations to the country since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Vienna says it intends to cooperate closely with Berlin on joint deportations.<\/p>\n<p>\"The minister of the interior has been in negotiations with the German minister of the interior for a very long time about how we can solve the problem of deportations to Afghanistan because Austria is also deporting Afghans and Syrians right now,\" said Chancellor Karl Nehammer.<\/p>\n<p>Now the next step is to be able to deport people directly to Afghanistan or Syria.\"<\/p>\n<p>Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner called Germany\u2019s decision \"very good\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8690036,8692126\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//08//30//scholz-says-return-of-afghan-nationals-a-clear-sign-criminals-will-be-deported/">Scholz says return of Afghan nationals a 'clear sign' criminals will be deported<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//30//germany-deports-afghan-nationals-to-homeland-for-first-time-since-taliban-takeover/">Germany deports Afghan nationals to homeland for first time since Taliban takeover<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In March, he called for talks on whether to reassess the EU-wide ban on deportations to Afghanistan and Syria as \"necessary and urgent\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Currently, we are not able to repatriate anyone to countries like Syria or Afghanistan, as it would be against EU law,\" Karner said in Brussels in March. \"In\u00a0Austria, these two countries account for about three-quarters of all asylum applications.\"<\/p>\n<h2>'I am pleased this is happening'<\/h2><p>Austria's Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum has already said that deportations to Afghanistan are permissible on a case-by-case basis due to the changed security situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a July ruling, the Constitutional Court confirmed that this assessment was made by the immigration authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry and the Federal Office for Foreign Affairs are working intensively on implementing deportations to Afghanistan, and talks are underway with several European countries.<\/p>\n<p>\"The fact that deportations to Afghanistan are possible again is a demand that I, that Austria, have been making for a long time, and I am therefore very pleased that this is happening. It is crucial that we deport people to Afghanistan and Syria again,\" Karner said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\"And that is why this will also happen departing from Austria in the future.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"The fact that a terrorist regime is in charge there, namely the Taliban, was the reason why it was suspended. That's why it's so important to work closely with partners in the region so that we can also bring people back to Kabul or Afghanistan directly,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1829536902896345210\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Human rights groups, such as Amnesty International, have criticised the move as a \"breach of international law\".<\/p>\n<p>Since the takeover of Kabul and the rest of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban have been accused of systemic oppression against women and girls, sexual and other minorities, and acts of vengeance against purported collaborators with the previous, pro-Western regime.<\/p>\n<h2>'We will not allow ourselves to be divided'<\/h2><p>Like Germany, Austria hasn't deported anyone directly to Afghanistan since 2021. The country has deported Afghan nationals before, but always to third countries.<\/p>\n<p>While the idea of joint deportations with Germany has found favour among many across Austria\u2019s political spectrum, some have cautioned that cases must be carefully scrutinised.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are strong as a society and will not allow ourselves to be divided by Islamism and terrorism,\" said Alma Zadi\u0107, the minister of justice for the Greens.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have strong laws, we have tough laws and these must be applied in this case. And all constitutional options must be exhausted, even when it comes to deportations.\" <\/p>\n<p>Almost 9,000 Afghan nationals applied for asylum in Austria last year, according to the Austrian immigration agency.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1725132985,"updatedAt":1725224110,"publishedAt":1725145190,"firstPublishedAt":1725145190,"lastPublishedAt":1725224110,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/69\/31\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9dde1916-5bd8-52f5-8a36-b43a54f427dd-8693110.jpg","altText":"Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, August 14, 2024","caption":"Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, August 14, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Siddiqullah Alizai\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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