On the occasion of the International Women’s Day 2021, Statistics Austria issued some relevant data for the difference between women and men in the Austrian workforce. Women earned 19.9 percent less per hour than men in the private sector in 2019. This means that the […]

The European Commission approved a total of 226 projects in all 27 Member States to support their efforts to design and implement national reforms to boost growth. These actions will be implemented under the Technical Support Instrument (TSI). … Article source: https://www.vindobona.org/article/ec-supports-7-austrian-projects-to-boost-economic-growth

The new Swiss President Guy Parmelin visited Austria and held meetings with, among others, Austria’s Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka. In his exchange with Van der Bellen, Parmelin expressed his interest for a so-called “green passport”, a European […]

The traditional, so-called “Quadrilateral Meeting” of the Ministers of Economy from Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany took place in a virtual setting at the beginning of March. At the invitation of the German Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier, the Austrian Federal Minister Margarete Schramböck, the […]

The Index Committee reviewed the composition of the Austrian indices and announced two changes. On March 22, 2021, EVN AG will move into the Austrian Traded Index ATX instead of Telekom Austria AG. … Article source: https://www.vindobona.org/article/vienna-stock-exchange-evn-replaces-telekom-austria-in-atx

The traditional, so-called “Quadrilateral Meeting” of the Ministers of Economy from Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany took place in a virtual setting at the beginning of March. At the invitation of the German Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier, the Austrian Federal Minister Margarete Schramböck, the […]

The Index Committee reviewed the composition of the Austrian indices and announced two changes. On March 22, 2021, EVN AG will move into the Austrian Traded Index ATX instead of Telekom Austria AG. … Article source: https://www.vindobona.org/article/vienna-stock-exchange-evn-replaces-telekom-austria-in-atx

South Korea Leads World in Innovation while Singapore and Switzerland rank 2nd and 3rd on new Bloomberg Index. Obviously, Bloomberg analysts noticed various high-visibility measures and progress made by Austria in the digital and health sectors during the first Corona year. … Article source: https://www.vindobona.org/article/austria-enters-for-the-first-time-as-us-exits-top-ten-in-bloombergs-innovation-index-2021

In a press conference on March 1, 2021, with Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Health Minister Rudolf Anschober, Governor of Vorarlberg Markus Wallner, Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig, Governor of Styria Hermann Schützenhöfer, and Oswald Wagner, Vice Rector of MedUni Vienna and Head of the Clinical Institute […]

Austria’s State Secretary for the Arts and Culture Andrea Mayer met virtually with the authors of two German studies Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schade of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kriegel of the Technical University of Berlin to discuss opening steps for […]