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Austria wants the EU’s border agency Frontex to send directly back to Turkey the migrants it picks trying to reach Greece, media on Saturday quoted Chancellor Werner Faymann as saying. “Frontex must pick up the people fleeing to Greece. We

A senior German educator has called for all pupils in the country to be forced to study Arabic until they graduate in the interests of the multicultural state. Professor of Computer Science Thomas Strothotte and President of a private Hamburg university has

In the midst of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, Austria’s population grew by 115,000 last year to almost 8.7 million, according to official figures. This represents a significant higher rate of growth than in 2014, when the population grew by around

Migrants who find Europe not to be the land of milk and honey they expected will be able to receive repatriation assistance from the Austrian government from this year. The development is part of a package of changes which the

Austrian authorities are investigating after children were sent home from a kindergarten with homework to learn the words to a Christian hymn, which had the word ‘God’ replaced with ‘Allah’. The Austrian parent of one child at the Muslim majority

An Austrian swimming bath that banned ‘refugees’ from bathing without being accompanied by their social workers last week have caved into leftist demands after just three days of criticism. The new rules of admission at the city baths in Mödling, Austria

The author of a new Austrian government report on radicalisation in schools has gone on record suggesting the government “cooperates with Salafist or Islamist organisations”, and the funding by foreign governments of projects in Europe is akin to colonisation. Commissioned by

A three-year old court case may have a major impact on the ability of landlords to exclude troublemakers from their premises, after eight men received thousands of euros of compensation between them this week for being unlawfully excluded from a nightclub.

Austria has “temporarily suspended” its involvement in the Schengen Area, and has deployed troops to deal with migrants attempting to pass through Germany. Making the announcement, the country’s chancellor, Werner Faymann, said that failure to secure the European Union’s (EU’s) external

An 18 year old Austrian woman was “rushed to hospital” in the early hours of this morning after a drink with an Afghan stranger she met on a train turned into a sex attack. Private security staff in Vienna’s Prater park

Major Austrian bank Erste Bank has shut down the account of the Austrian Identitarians — a growing grass-roots movement opposed to mass migration — according to a press release from the activist group. According to the press release the Identitarians

‘Unaccompanied minors’ who came to Europe from Syria and Afghanistan embarked on a campaign of sexual abuse and terror after they were put into classes with Austrian children who may have been too scared to report the attacks. Four boys aged

Amid the continuing migrant crisis in Europe, an Austrian bank is to introduce Sharia-compliant accounts for the country’s growing Muslim population. BAWAG PSK will launch the accounts in Vienna next month, allowing customers to conduct their banking according to Islamic

Austria has seen huge growth in the issue of handgun permits and weapon sales in recent months, following the Paris terror attacks and ongoing European migrant crisis. In Vienna, Austria’s largest city and national capital, the number of weapon permits issued

VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will take tougher action at its borders to turn away “economic migrants” in order to reduce overall immigration, Chancellor Werner Faymann said, striking a harsher tone on asylum seekers. Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict

As the full extent of the New Year’s Eve migrant sex attacks in Germany begins to be exposed, it has emerged that a very similar series of assaults occurred in Austria, which the police allegedly deliberately tried to hide. After

A special migrant train running from Austria to Germany was intercepted by Federal Police in Munich earlier this week, after authorities were alerted to a passenger with a severe case of tuberculosis. The train carrying the passenger with tuberculosis was

Samra Kesinovic was used as a sex slave by the Islamic State before being killed while trying to flee, it has been revealed.

VIENNA – Austria has sent hundreds of migrants back to neighbouring Slovenia in the past three days for lying about their nationality in an apparent attempt to improve their chances of being granted asylum, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.

Police in Austria said Saturday they stepped up security in Vienna and other cities after receiving a warning of possible attacks during the holiday season. “In the lead-up to Christmas, a friendly intelligence service sent a warning to numerous European capitals

Far from the migrant crisis easing over winter and dissipating next year, the Austria interior ministry has predicted another record year to come, as instability persists around the globe. The last release of immigration statistics shows the flow of migrants

BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities say two teenage Syrian brothers have been arrested at a refugee center in the country on suspicion of involvement with terrorist organizations — in one case, the Islamic State group. Prosecutors in Graz said Wednesday

A political and cultural campaign group dedicated to preserving European identity has said ‘Refugees Welcome’ activists hands are “stained with the blood of Paris” after they staged a mock beheading in central Vienna yesterday. The Identitarian movement, which shares some ground with

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A fictionalised civil war in Austria with mocked-up news reports and a child being shot by militants is being shown to pupils in junior schools to children will learn to be more accepting of migrants. Parents are protesting after children

Austrian police have arrested two people with suspected links to the Paris attacks, prosecutors said Wednesday, with an Austrian newspaper reporting the two are French citizens posing as refugees. “Two people coming from the Middle East were arrested at the

VIENNA — The Austrian chancellor’s spokeswoman says a small group of European Union nations will meet ahead of a summit of the full EU this month to discuss greater cooperation with Turkey and protection for the bloc’s external borders. Spokeswoman

Austria’s integration minister has slammed the country’s national employment service for offering segregated courses to Middle Eastern immigrants. He said that the move undermined Austria’s fundamental values and sent the wrong message to newly-arrived immigrants. The courses, run by The

The Austrian University of Graz has announced their two words of the year — one positive and one negative — and they are both compositions minted especially for mass migration. The Austrian word of the year 2015 is ‘Willkommenskultur’ —

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local: 8:40 p.m. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is now in the refugee-housing business. The world-famous ensemble on Monday presented a

Austrian newspapers report that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) beat to death Samra Kesinovic, a teen recruit whose flight to Syria became a major international story earlier this year, when she attempted to escape the radical Islamic group.

Sharia law is being openly practiced in Austria and Germany, an Austrian former Muslim has said. Sabatina James has called on the west to expel recognised Islamists in its midst, saying there can be no place for Muslims who refuse

Austria’s population will grow by 60,000 a year due to mass immigration, the country’s official statistics agency has said. Konrad Pesendorfer, head of Statistik Austria, said that by 2030 the small central European nation will have 9.3 million inhabitants, with

Europe should build a Guantanamo-bay style prison on a Mediterranean island for Islamists, says the leader of Austria’s increasingly popular Freedom party (FPO). Although FPO party leader Heinz-Christian Strache is an avowed Eurosceptic, he has called for continental cooperation in dealing

Austria is to build a 2.3 mile border ‘barrier’ on the 205 mile border with Slovenia in a non-attempt to control the flow of migrants into the country. The plan is a watered down version of an already significantly reduced border fence

An Afghan migrant has killed a father of two, also from Afghanistan, because he considered singing a sin in Islam. The victim’s wife tragically noted they had “fled here from these religious fanatics”, only to find them in Europe too.