Austria
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Central Europe
Vienna-Budapest, a journey into the past
23 January 201216Le Monde Paris -
Austria
Credit crunch comes to the East
24 November 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
Editorial
With TINA at the helm
4 November 20112Presseurop -
Literature
Brussels subsidises cut-price Kafka
4 November 2011PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Eurozone crisis
Chinese saviour is in debt too
31 October 20113PresseuropDie Presse -
24 October 20112The Irish Times Dublin
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Austria | Czech Republic
Banks battening down the hatches
11 October 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
Austria
The country of 35 scandals
6 October 2011PresseuropFalter -
Austria
Devil keeps faith alive
28 September 20112PresseuropFalter -
Austria-Hungary
Budapest accused of fleecing Austrian banks
13 September 20111PresseuropDer Standard -
Austria
A haven of corruption
31 August 20111PresseuropDie Presse -
Eurozone crisis
Finland destabilizes bailout plan
19 August 20111PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
A town in Europe
Slavonice, Moravia’s bohemian outpost
19 July 2011Lidové noviny Prague -
Lithuania-Austria
Release of KGB officer creates chill
19 July 2011PresseuropVilniaus diena -
Austria
Endgame for the Habsburgs
5 July 20111PresseuropDie Presse -
Nuclear energy
Let Brussels look after it
9 June 20114Respekt Prague -
Schengen
Back to the nation oasis
13 May 20115Die Presse Vienna -
Debate
Royalty will save democracy
6 May 20111Le Temps Geneva -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
29 April 20112Wprost Warsaw
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European Union
Reforming Schengen, an absurd gesture
28 April 20114Berliner Zeitung Berlin -
20 April 201113Der Standard Vienna
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Austria
Goodbye to standby
6 April 20111PresseuropFalter -
Austria
Police closer to home
5 April 2011PresseuropDie Presse -
Eurozone crisis
A new Trafalgar for Merkel and Sarkozy?
10 March 2011PresseuropPresseurop -
Austria
Immigrants face obstacle course
23 February 2011PresseuropDer Standard -
21 February 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
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18 January 2011PresseuropProfil
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Asylum Rights
Welcome, you’ve just been Dublined
18 January 20111Le Monde Paris -
Romania
A gift of black gold
13 January 2011PresseuropJurnalul Naţional -
Press freedom
It’s not just Hungary that’s muzzled
4 January 20111Der Standard Vienna -
Austerity
Hard-up families in affluent Austria
15 December 2010PresseuropDer Standard -
Eurozone crisis
Let them go bust
17 November 20101Der Standard Vienna -
3 November 2010PresseuropDie Presse
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Asylum rights
Refugee system is collapsing
28 October 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
Austria
Far right breakthrough in Vienna
11 October 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
Immigration
Frontex launches first expulsion charter
4 October 2010PresseuropLe Monde -
Immigration
The next Polish brain drain
27 September 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
9 September 2010PresseuropDer Standard
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13 August 2010PresseuropFalter
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Austria
Haider’s stash sparks reform
3 August 2010PresseuropDie Presse -
Agriculture
GM, the field is open
14 July 2010Presseurop -
Austria / Kosovo
Kosovan Arigona to be deported
8 July 2010PresseuropFalter -
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
Hey teacher, don’t leave our kids alone
24 June 20101PresseuropDie Presse -
Austria
Country mourns "real boss"
18 June 2010PresseuropDie Presse -
16 June 20101PresseuropDie Presse
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Agriculture
EU puts GM crops on the menu
10 June 20101Le Monde Paris -
9 June 2010PresseuropDie Presse
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Armies
An austere disarmament
9 June 20103Il Sole-24 Ore Milan -
Germany / Austria
Divided by a common language
3 June 20101Newsweek Polska Warsaw
Heirs to the Hapsburg Empire, Austria and Hungary have something else in common: an ambiguous relationship with history and a tendency to tolerate political excesses. Ten years after European sanctions against Vienna, why does the Budapest seem to be stuck in the 1930s? 
Is Facebook too curious about its users’ data? A series of complaints initiated by an Austrian law student have led to a data protection audit in Ireland, where the social networking site’s European HQ is based. 
In its tumbledown Renaissance splendour, this town on the Czech-Austrian frontier has become a haven for intellectuals and artists who come from Prague in search of authenticity. 
Leaving nuclear safety to Member States to deal with is no longer tenable. Joint surveillance would give credibility to proponents of nuclear energy and at the same time limit lobbying from the energy giants. 
Denmark, which has caused a splash with its solo reinstatement of border controls, is leading the dismantling of the EU and the retreat to the nation state. Border controls back up, no foreign students, import restrictions and transit agreements. Sound good? 
In the wake of the British royal wedding, perhaps the most successful PR achieved by a monarchy in two decades, essayist Ian Buruma argues that monarchies keep countries together, put a lid on ethnic conflicts and dampen down populism. 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
How many will leave the country? As Germany and Austria open their borders to workers from several Central and Eastern European countries, Polish authorities fear a new exodus of labour. 
France and Italy have called for reform of the Convention on freedom of movement — they will not have trouble getting what they want, but that does not solve the problem of accommodating immigrants, says the Berliner Zeitung. 
Yesterday the energy saving lamp, today data retention. Tomorrow: recording your frequent flyer points and what hotel you stay in. Its highly questionable and intrusive meddling is costing the EU the trust of the public. 
Karina and Rouslan fled from Chechnya to France, before being deported back to Poland, their point of entry into the EU. Le Monde reports on an absurd itinerary dictated by the Dublin II regulation. 
Hungary, the black sheep of Europe in matters of freedom of the press? By no means, says Austria’s Der Standard. There’s hardly a single country in which the powers that be don’t try to rein in the independent media. 
Greece is building new mountains of debt. Ireland is expecting to go to the wall. Europe’s taxpayers fear they’ll have to club together again for another bailout. Things can’t go on like this, fumes Der Standard. Investors have got to pay their fair share of state and bank bailouts. 
In a bid to overcome deadlock on the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMO), the European Commission has proposed that member states rule on their cultivation on their national territories. However the European press remains convinced that Brussels is still planning to push for the introduction of a wide range of new products. 
The European Commission intends to authorise more and more genetically modified crops (GMCs), leaving it up to member states to ban them as they see fit. That should satisfy biotech-friendly nations – while allowing those opposed to keep GMCs off their soil. 
Emergency measures enacted to reduce public spending and deficits are now being applied to the Defence budgets. Pulling out of foreign missions, reductions in weapons maintenance, and a decrease in military purchases are therefore the order of the day, at the expense of efficiency, notes Il Sole 24 Ore.
They speak the same language, or nearly, share a troubled past and increasingly watch the same TV shows. But they have a hard time putting up with each other, and yet can’t live without each other either. Germans and Austrians are one of the most baffling odd couples in Europe.