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Inside Austria’s Alpin Juwel: Why this hotel is perfect for families
It’s summer holiday season, and if you’re anything like me, the biggest challenge isn’t packing the suitcase — it’s deciding where to go. Add kids into the mix and the decision gets even trickier. Will the hotel cater for little ones? Will your...

PM Manele in Vienna for OPEC Fund Development Forum
Vienna, Austria – Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele is in Vienna, Austria, for the OPEC Fund Development Forum hosted by the OPEC Fund for International Development. The Prime Minister arrived in Vienna over the weekend after attending the 3rd...

Stadium in Austria now hosting Europe’s largest PVT system
Austria has installed Europe’s largest photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) solar system at a stadium, using Sunmaxx modules combined with geothermal energy and brine heat pumps to provide climate-neutral electricity and heat. June 17, 2025 Sandra Enkhardt...

Cortec Unveils World’s First Certified, Compostable VCI Paper, Advancing Sustainable-Packaging Leadership
Cortec® has entered another point on history’s scoreboard of sustainable leadership by introducing the first certified, industrially compostable VCI (vapour corrosion inhibitor) paper for protective-metals packaging. This development highlights...

Copenhagen Dethrones Vienna as the World’s Most Livable City
Move over, Vienna: There’s a new top metropolis in town. Copenhagen, the capital of Demark, is now the world’s most livable city, according to an annual list from the Economist Intelligence Unit (the EIU). The Scandinavian epicenter has ousted...

Prime Minister Manele in Vienna for OPEC Fund Development Forum
Vienna, Austria – Tuesday 17 June 2025 – Prime Minister Hon. Jeremiah Manele is in Vienna, Austria, for the OPEC Fund Development Forum hosted by the OPEC Fund for International Development. The Prime Minister arrived in Vienna over the weekend...

Study finds PFAS-eating bacteria may aid pollution cleanup
Certain bacteria isolated from soil could knock out “eternal pollutants”, substances that, once dispersed in the environment, do not degrade and threaten human and planetary health: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), present in a wide...

Ukraine and Austria sign Memorandum to expand cooperation in the agricultural sector
Ukraine and Austria have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to expand cooperation in the agricultural sector. The document was signed during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s official visit to Vienna by Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and...

Copenhagen replaces Vienna as the most liveable city in the world in 2025
Copenhagen has been named the most liveable city in the world, overtaking Vienna after a three-year reign. The Danish capital earned top marks in stability, education, and infrastructure, according to the 2025 Global Liveability Index released by...

Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister visits OPEC Fund Development Forum in Austria
Baku, June 17, AZERTAC Mikayil Jabbarov, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Economy, visited Vienna, the capital of Austria, to participate in the OPEC Fund Development Forum, also holding bilateral meetings on the margins of the event. During the meeting...

Venezuelan VP Rodriguez Criticizes Sanctions on Oil-Producing Nations at OPEC Forum
Jorge Gestoso (L) and Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez (R), Vienna, Austria, July 9, 2025. Photo: teleSUR July 9, 2025 Hour: 1:04 pm On Wednesday, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez gave an exclusive interview to teleSUR from Vienna, where the...

Copenhagen dethrones Vienna as the world's most liveable city
Copenhagen has claimed the top spot on the 2025 world's most livable cities list, dethroning Vienna after the Austrian capital held the position for the past three years. That's according to the latest Economist Intelligence Unit's Global...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Vienna for the First Time Since the Start of the War
Under unprecedented security measures and with the highest military honors, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Austria for his eagerly awaited first official visit since the start of Russia's war of aggression in February 2022....

Lightning strike kills 3 "experienced mountaineers" on popular hiking trail in Austrian Alps
Three hikers have been killed by lightning while hiking on a popular trail in the Austrian Alps. The group, which consisted of two brothers aged 60 and 62 and the 60-year-old wife of one of the men, was hiking on the Damülser Mittagsspitze...

News digest: Slovakia like Austria or Switzerland? Fico stirs the neutrality pot
Welcome to Today in Slovakia. Whether you are unwinding or catching up over coffee – here’s what mattered on Tuesday, 17 June. Fico fans the flames – again Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement...
TIMELINE: Threat for severe weather Wednesday; damaging winds the main concern
TIMELINE: Threat for severe weather Wednesday; damaging winds the main concern IT IS WITH US. SOME PEOPLE LOVE IT. IT’S NOT MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD. NO, I DIDN’T EVEN HAVE A MOMENT TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS HUMIDITY, BECAUSE I WAS...

OSCE Chairpersonship Conference Emphasizes Comprehensive Approach to Climate Protection
Elina Valtonen, Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chairperson of the OSCE emphasized in her opening speech that environmental issues and climate change must be part of comprehensive security, as they pose a threat to global security. She...
Battery Innovation Days 2025 heading to Graz in Austria for its 5th edition
This year’s event will take place on 2-3 December 2025 in Graz, in the Austrian region of Styria, hosted by Styrian Business Promotion Agency (SFG). Styria is at the heart of Europe’s battery innovation landscape and home to a thriving ecosystem...

3 of the Best Treetop Walks in Europe: Switzerland, Germany, & Austria
Forest walks, sky bridges, treetop walkways—there are many names that describe elevated adventures out in nature. Though known by many names, the idea is the same. You take a raised pathway in order to explore a natural area from a semi-bird’s-eye...

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. VIENNA — At the edge of a wide, grassy park in Vienna, there's a modern building with lots of...