Tag: Austria

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Austria passes law making COVID-19 vax mandatory

  

  The Austrian parliament Thursday approved the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 by 137 votes in favor and 33 against. The measure will take effect Feb. 4. Austria has thus become the first European nation to legalize such a practice.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 20:08 UTC

  German families seek shelter in Paraguay from vaccines and lockdowns

  

  German citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or put up to harsh mobility restrictions have fled their country and sought shelter in a community within Paraguay, it was reported.

• Saturday, December 4th 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Austria's Chancellor who decreed full vaccination resigns

  

  Austria's Interior Minister Karl Nehammer has been nominated to take over as leader of the conservative People's Party, which will most likely make him the country's next Chancellor (or head of government) following Thursday's abrupt decision by Alexander Schallenberg to resign.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 17:34 UTC

  Austria back to full lockdown, vaccination mandatory as of Feb. 2022

  

  Austria's Federal Government has announced a full lockdown regardless of vaccination status starting this coming Monday amid a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases. Austria will also become the fourth country in the world after Indonesia, Micronesia, and Turkmenistan to decree a compulsory immunization for the entire population.

• Monday, November 15th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Austria: Mandatory lockdown for all unvaxxed effective Nov. 15

  

  The Government of Austria has finally ruled in favor of a mandatory nationwide lockdown for all those unvaccinated against COVID-19, effective Nov. 15.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 18:37 UTC

  Austria's unvaccinated on the brink being quarantined yet again

  

  The Government of Upper Austria plans to impose a full lockdown on the region's unvaccinated as of next Monday, despite doubts that this is the right approach at the growing number of COVID-19 infections, it was reported.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Austrian coalition will block EU/Mercosur trade accord if it goes against the European Green Deal

  

  Austria’s coalition government has confirmed it will block the landmark EU-Mercosur trade agreement – which should create the biggest free-trade area in the world – saying it goes against the EU’s environmental ambitions set out in the European Green Deal.

• Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Pakistan underlines that freedom of expression carries special duties and responsibilities

  

  World leaders have sent messages of support to Austria and Afghanistan as they did previously with France following the last bout of terrorist attacks, while Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, unequivocally condemning terrorism, said that ”freedom of expression,” is not without limits in a pluralistic diverse and respectful societies.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Mexico claiming Aztec emperor Moctezuma's feather headdress from Austria

  

  Mexico's president said on Monday that he had given his wife the “almost impossible mission” of persuading Austria to return a feather headdress said to have been worn by Aztec emperor Moctezuma.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Austria is turning Hitler's house into a police station, hoping to neutralize neo Nazi attraction

  

  Austria presented an architectural plan on Tuesday to turn the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station in the hope of “neutralizing” the space and ensuring it does not attract neo-Nazis.