Austria’s asylum cap to 37,500 refugees has been declared unlawful by the country’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday, March 15. While Chancellor Werner Faymann is calling on Germany to introduce its own cap, the president of Austria’s Constitutional Court, Gerhart Holzinger, stated that Austria is obliged to grand asylum to everyone that meets the legal requirements. … Continue reading
Austria will provide security and surveillance gear to Macedonia in order to keep its border impregnable in the face of the migrant influx. Last week Macedonia closed its border with Greece, the EU country bearing most of the brunt of the refugee crisis. The few migrants that managed to make it through to Macedonia were … Continue reading
Situated in the heart of Europe, Austria offers great variety concentrated in a small area. Here you can find peace and a unique quality of life, big city flair and a rich culture. Austria combines a long tradition of higher education with state-of-the-art research – it’s higher education institutions have accomplished outstanding achievements on an … Continue reading
Here you can find an overview of all degree courses at all Austrian institutions of Higher Education. The language of instruction is usually German. Many institutions, however, also offer courses in other languages, see here for further information. Structure of study programmes Most universities and universities of applied sciences offer the following: * Bachelor’s programmes: … Continue reading
ASYLUM seekers in Austria are being given priority medical care ahead of nationals – to keep expensive translators in its hospitals and surgeries busy. The landlocked European nation, which shares its borders with eight other countries, admitted its medics seek to diagnose foreign patients ahead of Austrians. Officials have brought in translators at medical practices … Continue reading
A DOCTOR has been stripped of his licence after refusing to treat migrants because he says they might be MURDERERS. Austrian Dr Thomas Unden put a sign up in his practice explaining that he would refuse to serve asylum seekers because he had no way of knowing “where they are from”. The 57-year-old said: “I … Continue reading
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The latest in the odyssey of hundreds of thousands of people trekking across Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 5:20 p.m. Katerina Hola believes that migrants often need joy as much as they need food or drink. So, she and her fellow volunteers sometimes sing to the migrants … Continue reading
Packed trains have arrived in Austria and Germany after Hungarian police suddenly allowed migrants camped around Budapest rail stations to leave the country without visa checks. As men, women and children – many fleeing Syria’s civil war – continued to arrive from the east, Hungarian authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on towards Germany, … Continue reading
The Danish People’s Party believes that Denmark should consider striving for a bilateral agreement similar to the one recently reached between Austria and Slovakia, where asylum seekers will be housed in Slovakia while waiting for their cases to be processed. According to the Danish People’s Party (DF), one approach to limiting the number of refugees … Continue reading