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Australia increasingly sceptical about alarmism
According to a new poll from Gallup,Australians' attitudes about global warming could be a factor later this month in the general election where climate change has emerged as an issue. The percentage of Australians who are aware of climate change and...
Eurozone: Budget consolidation in Austria
On 26 April 2010 the Council examined the updated stability programme of Austria, which covers the period 2009 to 2013: COUNCIL OPINION on the updated stability programme of Austria, 2009-2013; OJEU 27.5.2010 C 137/7. The Opinion describes the effe...
1917 - Austro-Hungarian propaganda.
Someone, who like me has Czech inl aws, passes me a blog link to some Czech language 1917 - Austro-Hungarian propaganda. Small wonder thisThrone and Altar stuff never held Austria-Hungary together, although some Catholic relative seems to have kept i...
The ECtHR on Access to Case File
I just finished translation of the ECtHR’s decision on admissibility of Application no. 42551/98 by Oleg Svinarenkov against Estonia, into the Estonian language. The facts of the case relate to deliberate homicide and unlawful possession of a fir...
Loss of Nationality, Deception, Citizenship and EU Law: Case C-135/08
The Court of Justice has handed down an interesting and important judgment on the loss of citizenship and its relationship to EU law. In its judgment in Case C-135/08 Janko Rottmann v. Freistaat Bayern, the Court held that EU law,...
Austrian farm subsidies on the map
FollowTheMoney.eu and its two current projects, farmsubsidy.org and fishsubsidy.org, are based on a very simple methodology: more transparency in public policy will lead to a better informed public debate and better public policies. Without analysis...
Is Austria Set To Join The Honourable Company of PIIGs?
Hypo Alpe Adria bank, the Austrian arm of the Bavarian bank Bayern LB, was nationalized on Monday for the symbolic price of three euros. This unexpected action brought to the world’s attention something which has been obvious to some of us for...
Vienna - Back to the Start
It’s interesting visiting a city again after a ten year absence. I’m on a bunpy flight back to London at the moment, after a very nice few days in Vienna. I hadn’t been there since I went on a trip with my high school band in 1998. Vienna was a...
Landtag’s election far-right campaign placard in Upper Austria
The Landtag elections of the Upper Austria constitutive federal state in Austria are to take place on Sunday the 27th of September 2009. A Landtag is a unicameral legislature for a constitutive federal state, while Austria’s national bicameral parl...
