Austrian McDonald’s New McRibster Jazzes Up the Traditional McRib. From the elusive Shamrock shake, Fish McBites for Lent, or France’s McBaguette, McDonald’s always seems to be one step ahead of our foodie needs. For a limited time, McDonald’s locations in Austria are featuring the McRibster, a breaded, fried McRib that’s topped with pepper-jack cheese and bacon. [...]
Austrian foreign minister for EU ‘growth fund’ The crisis-hit EU needs to set foundations for growth, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said on Tuesday, suggesting a “growth fund” during talks with EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. “Now is the time to lay the foundations for more growth in the EU,” Spindelegger said in a [...]
Austrians own more than 4.5 million cars, it was announced yesterday (Mon). Statistic agency Statistik Austria said the number of registered vehicles surpassed 4.5 million for the first time in history. Around 4.51 million cars are registered for usage in the alpine country at the moment, according to the agency which recorded a 1.6 per [...]
Repaying Aid Erste, Raiffeisen and the other Austrian banks have lent a combined $266 billion to borrowers in eastern Europe, about 70 percent of the Alpine nation’s gross domestic product. That figure doesn’t include the Italian-owned Bank Austria. A large part of the banks’ loans are refinanced with local deposits, limiting the risk for the [...]
Austria Bank Capital Needs Decisive for Aaa Rating, Moody’s Says Austria’s top debt ranking is most threatened by the potential for another round of state aid for the nation’s banks, Moody’s Investors Service said, the second such alarm from a rating company in as many months. Moody’s cut Austria’s outlook to “negative” and may strip [...]
Austria Fekter: Eurogroup Leader Should Be A Head Of Government. The successor to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of euro-zone finance ministers, will have to be a head of government with experience as a finance minister, Austria’s Finance Minister Maria Fekter told journalists Monday night. She said it was important that the successor to the so-called Eurogroup [...]
Bank bankruptcy law planned. The government intends to change Austria’s insolvency regulations to loosen protective factors banks have so far benefited from. Several bankers – including Andreas Treichl, the head of market leader Erste Bank Group AG (Erste Bank) – have spoken out in favour of a reform of the financial sector bankruptcy law. Austrian [...]
MP Bucher Has A Recipe For Success Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) leader Josef Bucher demonstrated his cooking skills at the weekend. The MP who is also a hotel owner told guests at the “Habsaburger von Eduard Mainoni” wine bar that if a politician could manage it – then it can’t be difficult.” [...]
Austrian MP disputes charge of flawed Russia vote. An Austrian member of parliament who helped monitor this month’s Russian presidential election accused human rights groups on Thursday of political bias for calling the vote unfairly skewed in favor of victor Vladimir Putin. Election observers had said Putin, who won about 64 percent of the vote [...]
Lower Austria wants better train service to Vienna. The Lower Austrian government has appealed to the Viennese coalition to make the city’s park & ride facilities a more attractive option for commuters. Karl Wilfing of the People’s Party (ÖVP) said parking fees at multi-storey car parks in Vienna-Penzing and Donaustadt district should drop to encourage [...]
Austria Faces $1.3 Billion Bank Injection After ISDA Triggers Greek CDS. Austria is facing a capital injection of as much as 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) into KA Finanz AG less than two weeks after bailing out Oesterreichische Volksbanken AG. (VBPS) The International Swaps & Derivatives Association yesterday ruled that Greece’s use of collective action [...]
Austrian group supports women’s projects in PH. The Catholic Women’s Movement (CWM) in Austria held a benefit event dubbed “Aktion Familienfasttag” or “Day of Fasting in the Family”, for aid projects in Asia, including the Philippines, and Latin America. “We are working together with our partners to ensure that women get better opportunities in life, [...]
BVA to abolish patient’s contribution. More than 260,000 Austrians are looking forward to being freed from paying excess insurance. Fritz Neugebauer, the head of Austria’s Public Servants’ Insurance Agency (BVA), announced yesterday (Thurs) that the insurer would scrap rules forcing young clients to pay 20 per cent of costs caused by visits to the doctor. [...]
Austrian police get Facebook fake IDs. Austrian police have been given the go-ahead by the justice Ministry to create fake Facebook accounts to help them with criminal investigations. It means that undercover police detectives will not just be able to operate in plain clothes in the real world – but also in the virtual world [...]
Austrian budget can handle extra Greek hit: Fekter. Austria’s budget can absorb an extra hit of up to 400 million euros from credit default swaps (CDS) that Greece’s debt restructuring triggered at a nationalised bank, Finance Minister Maria Fekter told a newspaper. She was also quoted on Sunday by the Oesterreich paper as saying Austria [...]
Austria Recommends a Name Change for ‘Discriminatory’ Foods. Your menu has a dirty mouth, and you might not even realize it. That spicy pasta – spaghetti alla puttanesca – literally means “whore’s spaghetti.” In the U.K., you’ll find “spotted dick” on store shelves. In Alpine Europe, double-baked rye bread is called “Negerbrot.” (The last part [...]
Sweden’s Myhrer wins World Cup slalom for 3rd career victory; Austria’s Hirscher skies out. Andre Myhrer of Sweden won the season’s penultimate men’s World Cup slalom Sunday, while Marcel Hirscher of Austria straddled a gate in the opening run and failed to score points for the overall championship. Myhrer held on to his lead after [...]
