July 25, 2008 - 3:01 pm - Posted by Galina
Jörg Haider removed three more asylum seekers from Carinthia on Tuesday night in an operation that was kept secret from his colleagues in the federal government.
Haider and his party (BZÖ) have been at odds with the federal government Interior Minister Maria Fekter on this issue and are continuing their highly controversial policy to remove criminal [...]
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July 19, 2008 - 1:48 pm - Posted by Galina
Haider was a long-time leader of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). When he stepped down as party’s chairman in 2000, he remained its major figure until 2005. In April 2005 he founded a new party, the “Alliance for the Future of Austria” (BZÖ-Bündnis Zukunft Österreich)
Joerg Haider was born in 1950 in Bad Goisern, Upper Austria. [...]
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July 17, 2008 - 1:47 pm - Posted by Galina
Migration statistics Austria
International migration balance to and from Austria by citizenship 2000-2007
2000/Total 17 272 (Austrian citizens: -4 315; Foreign citizens:+21587)
2007/Total 32 714 (Austrian citizens: -5 509; Foreign citizens: +38 223);
38 223 foreign citizens migrated from abroad and settled in Austria in 2007,
and 20 464 Austrians left the country (it is minus 5 500 in total)
Statistics [...]
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July 7, 2008 - 11:26 pm - Posted by Galina
Alfred Gusenbauer, the tenth chancellor in the history of the Second Austrian Republic, will be remembered for his short time in that position.
Gusenbauer has been Chancellor for 545 days. With an early general election likely to be held by the end of September, he will have been Chancellor for slightly more than 700 days before [...]
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July 6, 2008 - 11:05 pm - Posted by Galina
I made one snapshot of these smiling Austrian girls handing out Mars chocolates in Mariahilfer Strasse, and wanted instantly to proceed, but at that sinister moment my camera stopped clicking because card was over
Информация о жизни в Австрии, об обычаях, национальном характере австрийцев, свежие новости о политических и культурных событиях по стране, размышления, заметки, интервью [...]
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July 4, 2008 - 11:16 am - Posted by Galina
Rudolf Hundstorfer, President of Austrian Federation of Trade Unions (OeGB)
In October 2003 Rudolf Hundstorfer became vice president of the OeGB (Austrian Federation of Trade Unions). After resignation of Fritz Verzetnisch as president of this organization in March 2006 because of the BAWAG scandal, Hundstorfer took the presidency provisionally.
On September, 8th 2005 as a representative [...]
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July 1, 2008 - 1:58 pm - Posted by Galina
Governor Franz Voves drinking Styrian wine
In politics one holds no promises
“The head of Styrian government Voves can not be surpassed in incredibility”, told OeVP family speaker Ridi Steibl commenting SPOe-forcingup of prices in Steiermark. On the 1st of July the electricity prices will be raised by 15 percent.
OeVP-family speaker reminded to audience the fact [...]
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June 27, 2008 - 8:12 pm - Posted by Galina
Chancellor Gusenbauer canceled summer party
” I am not in the mood to celebrate”,- said Austria’s chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. He had canceled his traditonal summer party.
All of the invitations were forwarded, but Gusenbaeur changed his mind and blew off the celebrations.
Last year this event was a full success.
One year later the situation is totally different. Gusenbauer [...]
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June 23, 2008 - 10:00 pm - Posted by Galina
One of manifestations in Vienna. The man with the dog has inscription at his shirt: “Nothing moves forward without Haider”
According to my private statistics J�rg Haider is the most frequent Google search term after words sex and nudity that direct visitors to my website.
When you live in the western country and bring reminiscences about [...]
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June 20, 2008 - 2:57 pm - Posted by Galina
Minister Doris Bures and Werner Faymann (SPOe) with Westbahnhof under reconstruction in background.
I must confess I had sent emails to representatives of all Austrian political parties offering my services as photographer,
and Franz Voves - governor of Styria (SPOe) was the only one who replied. Thanks, Franz! When I photographed you, I was fantasizing how it [...]
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May 22, 2008 - 6:57 pm - Posted by Galina
The moral postulate of soviet society was simple: who does not work must not eat, and parasitism was considered to be hardest sin. One could even be in problems with police suspected in parasitic mode of existence.
Living in center of Europe nowadays, I see symbiotic relationships with society to be of no great fault at [...]
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May 7, 2008 - 7:36 pm - Posted by Galina
Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same - too much of work and too little or nothing of [...]
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