Austrian police have changed a young woman with inflicting bodily harm for defending herself against a sexual molester, local newspapers report. The incident took place during the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Vienna’s landmark City Hall square, where a 21-year-old Swiss woman pushed back an Afghan migrant who tried to...
Austria has decided to follow the United States and Hungary in pulling out of the United Nations migration pact that is set to be ratified in December.
The Austrian government was pulling out of the UN-sponsored pact to “defend its national sovereignty,” local news reports
Vienna Police have booked criminal charges against three pro-Israeli activists for waving an Israeli flag to a group of anti-Israel demonstrators. They have been accused of waving the Israeli flag “in an extremely provocative way” causing “considerable offense among the Palestinian protesters,” Austrian media reported, citing the police statement. If found...
Last week, Austria’s National Union of Students (ÖH), the country’s leading student body, passed a sternly worded resolution condemning the anti-Israel boycott campaign — or the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” Movement — trying to get a foothold in the country. The student body raised concerns about the “growing presence of the...
Just two weeks after the right-wing AfD Party’s surge in the German election, Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) is set to join the country’s next coalition government. The Freedom Party, Europe’s oldest surviving right-wing party, which ran on an anti-Islamization and anti-mass migration platform received 26 percent of the votes, party’s strongest...
With 10 days until the Austria’s election, the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) is surging in polls. According to the pollsters, the party could win up to 25 per cent of the vote in October 15 parliamentary election. Such a strong showing at the ballot box could propel the party to the position...
Remember the Left’s chorus of “build bridges not walls”, condemning every sane move from limiting mass migration into Europe to President Trump’s proposed border wall? With Jihad warfare fueled by mass migration rocking one European city after another, Europe’s ruling class is finally having an unpleasant rendezvous with the reality. Though it’s...
In a recent post, we noted that Italy was considering closing its ports due to the overwhelming flood of migrants arriving from northern Africa.
Italy feels abandoned by the rest of Europe and even
“What the refugees bring us is more valuable than gold,” said the Socialist German politician Martin Schulz while addressing the students at the University of Heidelberg last year.
With Islamist terror attacks hitting one European city after another and Germany in the grip of a self-inflicted Migrant Crime Wave, the gifts of mass-migration from Arab and...
In what should be a new low for women rights in Europe, Austria’s leftist President Alexander van der Bellen has called on “every woman to wear headscarf” in order to fight growing “Islamophobia,” Austrian media reported today. Going by the Austrian media coverage, the otherwise perpetually-offended feminist groups in Austria and Europe have...
Hotel Kaiserwasser and Hotel Regina in Vienna, Austria, have canceled a BDS event by a British-Palestinian lawyer. News agency Heute.at reported that Hotel Kaiserwasser canceled the event due to charges of antisemitism and one employee received threats by the Jewish community. Some have disputed this:
“Nonsense,” said Raimund Fastenbauer, general-secretary of the...
The push back against the progressive left’s agenda that culminated in the election of President-elect Trump had been gaining steam for a while now and not just on this side of the Atlantic.
Faced with poor economic growth, an influx of refugees, a sense of losing their national identity, and a variety...
A 20-year-old Iraqi refugee brutally raped a 10-year-old boy at a public swimming pool in Austria, claiming he was having a “sexual emergency,” and his conviction has been overturned by Austria’s Supreme Court on the grounds that the rapist didn’t know the little boy didn’t want to be raped.
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“Anti-Semitic, homophobic and sympathising with Jihad.” This is how a leading Austrian newspaper summed up the latest study looking into the attitudes of young Muslims living in the city of Vienna. The study commissioned by the city reveals that nearly one-third of...
The current Austrian presidential election is filled with more drama than America’s election cycle, if you can believe that.
Independent presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen, backed by the Green Party, barely beat Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer in May in an election that came down to the mail-in ballots.
However, Austria’s highest...
Austria’s highest court ruled for a do-over of the presidential election runoff after it found discrepancies in the mail ballots.
The mail-in ballots made former Green Party chief Alexander Van der Bellen president with 50.3% of the vote over Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer.
Constitutional Court head Gerhart Holzinger said the court noted...
