Video: Mei-Pochtler only knows Project Ballhausplatz from the media
Chancellor advisor Antonella Mei-Pochtler only knows the Ballhausplatz project, i.e. the unofficial campaign strategy that helped VP chief Sebastian Kurz to enter the Chancellery in 2017, only from the media. “That was never a topic of conversation,” said the head of the strategy department at the BKA entitled “Think...
Video: Dispute over vaccines not bought rages on
In the vaccine debate, the SPÖ and NEOS again criticized Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) on Tuesday. The allegations were that he was unbelievable and that he was bothering others. Finance Minister Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) located the bottleneck in the Ministry of Health. Its boss Rudolf Anschober (Greens) was...
“Narcobarbies”: Women rise in the mafia
In Mexico and Colombia, women are increasingly found in middle management of organized crime. SN / AP Emma Coronel 2019 in New York, where she was at the trial of her husband Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. In February she was arrested herself. She was everywhere. In the courtroom, in...
USA forges a stronger counterweight to China in Asia
On their first trip abroad, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sharply criticized China’s behavior in the region. “If necessary, we will defend ourselves if China uses coercion and aggression to get its way,” said Blinken on Tuesday during a visit to Tokyo. In...
Live: Kurz receives heads of government for a working meeting on vaccine distribution in the EU
After a working meeting with the Prime Ministers of Slovenia, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic on vaccine distribution in the EU, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) wants to make a statement. Follow the press conference live from 2 p.m. SN / APA / ROLAND SCHLAGER Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks...
Donation allegations against Strache at the public prosecutor’s office
The Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a donation allegation against ex-FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache. According to an anonymous report available to the APA, the latter is said to have induced an entrepreneur to provide him with 600,000 euros for the Vienna election campaign. In order to avoid declaring...
Minister Haaland first Native to join the US cabinet
Congressman Deb Haaland will become the first Native American woman to hold a ministerial post in the US cabinet. A majority in the Senate confirmed her nomination as Home Secretary in the cabinet of Democratic President Joe Biden on Monday (local time). She should be sworn in shortly. The...
First corona lockdown exactly one year ago
Exactly one year ago, on March 16, 2020, the first lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic began in Austria. With fewer than 200 new infections and five deaths up to that day, exit restrictions and shops without urgent need, restaurants and cultural establishments had to close. In the meantime,...
Pressure on Biden government over immigration grows
In view of the rapidly increasing number of migrants on the southern border of the USA, the pressure on the administration of the Democratic US President Joe Biden is growing. During a visit to the border in El Paso, Texas on Monday, the Supreme Republican in the US House...
Cell phone seized by the chief prosecutor
The head of the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office, Johann Fuchs, had to hand over his cell phone. This is reported by the “Kleine Zeitung”, citing the competent Innsbruck Public Prosecutor’s Office. Fuchs, who was regarded as the shop steward of the suspended section head Christian Pilnacek and, like the...