Austria

Two Germans are raising eyebrows in the world of numismatics after listing two 2-euro coins on eBay with an asking price of several thousand euros. The sellers claim that their coins, which were among the first to be issued in 2002,...

Austria's Defense Minister Mario Kunasek proposed for the deployment of soldiers from EU member states to support Frontex in guarding European borders from migrants. Kunasek spoke in a meeting of European defense ministers in Vienna saying that military personnel would be...

Metropolitan Arsenios of Austria and Hungary The first Greek Orthodox monastery is to be erected in the Austrian state of Burgenland, in eastern Austria on the border with Hungary, according to the Athens Macedonia News Agency. The exact area in Burgenland...

The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) completed a promotion of Kythira to Austrian journalists in the last few days, hoping to boost tourism to the small island lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. Journalists specializing in tourism...

Vienna's Deputy Mayor Maria Vasilakou asked for the transfer of the Central European University (CEU) from Budapest to Vienna after the Hungarian government decided its closure. CEU was founded in 1991 by Hungarian-American investor and businessman George Soros. On Tuesday,...

A 28-year-old Greek man confessed to Austrian authorities that he is the murderer of another Greek man, Antonis Christofakis, 32, who was found dead on the German-Austrian border. According to the lawyer of the 28-year-old suspect, Giorgos Vlachopoulos, who spoke to...

Greece has ousted Turkey from first place in the preferences of Austrian holidaymakers this year according to bookings made so far, a spokeswoman of international tourism company TUI Group said, during an event in Vienna on Thursday. “This year Greece...

Austrians living and working in Greece sent an open letter of protest to the government in Vienna, asking for a more responsible stance on the refugee crisis. Austria has imposed a cap on the number of refugees it would accept...

Austria refused to accept 1,491 refugees from Greece, asking to postpone their relocation for 12 months, according to the online edition of Austrian Neue Zurcher Zeitung. Austria requested from the European Commission to postpone the relocation agreement for 12 months...

The Austrian government says the number of dead found in a truck trailer full of refugees on an Austrian highway is higher than first estimated, with 70 or more victims now believed to have suffocated during their journey. Austrian Interior...