Organisation: Austrian government

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Covid-19 exit strategy - what we can learn from other countries

A number of countries are beginning to relax lockdown measures introduced to contain the spread of the Covid-19. Ireland will monitor their progress, amid warnings from the WHO about lifting restrictions too quickly.

world

Austrian government agrees to ban full-face veils in public

world

Call to demolish Adolf Hitler’s house

farming

Delays in basic farm payments unacceptable, says IFA deputy president Tim O’Leary

comment-analysis

Inaction on nuclear weapons risks all life

business

Austria starts talks with banks to wind down Hypo Alpe

Earning its place in the economy

The Arts Council has shown that investment in the arts yields significant returns. So why is it being cut, asks Alan O’Riordan

Thu, 20 Dec, 2012

Austrian government backs Eurozone bailout plan

Efforts to boost the Eurozone bailout fund have come one step closer to reality with the Austrian parliament backing the plan.

Fri, 30 Sep, 2011

Lesson from Austria

I HOLIDAY in Austria every year.

Sat, 07 Apr, 2007

Klimt paintings looted by Nazis to be sold at Christie's

Four of five oil paintings by Gustav Klimt that were the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and the artworks’ Jewish heirs will be heading to Christie's for sale this autumn, the auction house said.

Mon, 07 Aug, 2006

NY museum pays over €100m for Klimt portrait

AN oil and gold-encrusted portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for a record-breaking amount by a New York museum.

Tue, 20 Jun, 2006

Funding reluctance could jeopardise Wiesenthal Institute

The Austrian government’s reluctance to provide adequate funding could jeopardise the creation of a new Holocaust research center in honour of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.

Tue, 06 Jun, 2006

Austria to return art stolen by Nazis

Austria’s culture minister today agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family.

Tue, 17 Jan, 2006

Austria to take over EU presidency

Austria takes over the presidency of the European Union on Sunday, just six years after the alpine nation was slapped with EU sanctions for bringing the rightist Freedom Party into its coalition government.

Thu, 29 Dec, 2005

Pressure on Austria over Turkey talks

PRESSURE was being piled on Austria last night to allow negotiations to open today as planned on Turkey's EU membership bid.

Mon, 03 Oct, 2005

Radioactive water leak fuels nuclear controversy

About 3,000 litres of radioactive water leaked at a troubled nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic close to the Austrian border, officials in Prague said today.

Mon, 07 Jun, 2004

European rights ruling to affect Irish laws

A LANDMARK case in Europe supporting tenancy rights for gay couples will have implications here when Ireland ratifies the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in December.

Thu, 31 Jul, 2003

Austria's Jews paid their own way to death camps

Austrian Jews had to pay for their own deportation and subsequent extermination in Nazi death camps, historians said today.

Mon, 24 Feb, 2003

Rival parties agree not to hold early elections

Austria's far-right Freedom Party has withdrawn its call for early elections.

Thu, 24 Jan, 2002