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• Schengen expansion: Seventeen years after Romania and Bulgaria joined the European Union, they have been given the green light to become members of its border-free Schengen travel zone. A step back: Although border checks were lifted on travel by air and sea for the two countries last March, it was only last month that Austria lifted its resistance to ending border checks by land.

16 Ara 2024

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• Raiffeisen Bank International , Austria's second-biggest lender, confirmed it received a request from the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to "clarify payments business and related processes maintained by RBI in light of the recent developments related to Russia and Ukraine." Why it matters: Raiffeisen is deeply embedded in the Russian financial system and is one of the only two foreign banks on the Russian central bank's list of 13 "...Devamını Oku

21 Şub 2023

• EU countries agreed to allow Croatia to join the Schengen Area as of Jan. 2023, finally accepting the country after years of await. However, Romania and Bulgaria’s accession into Schengen was blocked —despite both having joined the EU six years before Croatia— by Austria, citing concerns about migration.

09 Ara 2022

⚡ Lightning Round Austria launched legal action against the EU over its classification of nuclear energy and natural gas as sustainable, following its early statement that it would stand up against the EU's "attempt of greenwashing." Head of Spain's supreme court Carlos Lesmes resigned, directing the country's two political parties to end a four-year stalemate over judicial appointments. North Korea confirmed that its recent series of missile launches were ...Devamını Oku

11 Eki 2022

• German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a report that except for the ones already in place with Denmark and Austria, EU partners like the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Poland refused to engage in “constructive negotiations” about bilateral gas solidarity agreements with Germany, which could exacerbate the country’s gas crunch. Furthermore: Germany is also in talks with Italy and the Czech Republic while France promised to supply Germany with gas if Ger...Devamını Oku

09 Eyl 2022

• Austria announced it used a clause that required operators to use at least 10% of the capacity at critical storage spaces, to seize a natural gas storage facility from Gazprom, namely the Haidach depot , which ignored rules on minimum storage levels and let the reserves fall below the legal level required.

07 Tem 2022

⚡️ Lightning Round A 29-year-old driver drove into a crowd of pedestrians in Berlin's Charlottenburg neighborhood, leaving at least one dead and eight wounded. The suspected driver has been taken into police custody, and the person who lost her life at the scene was identified as a school teacher. More than 100 students and teachers on a school trip in Austria from Germany had to be airlifted to safety, after they followed an online map that directed them onto a...Devamını Oku

09 Haz 2022

• German Finance Minister Christian Lindner suggested that the recovery fund the EU has set up to help the bloc recover from the effects of the pandemic could be repurposed to fight the economic impact of the war in Ukraine. A step back: EU members agreed in 2020 to jointly borrow €800 billion and while France calls for new borrowing, Germany, the Netherlands and Austria oppose new debt.

28 Mar 2022

• The European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) recommended that Germany and Austria take measures to curb a spike in home prices, more specifically, to limit borrowing for homes in Vienna and Berlin and include a down payment of at least 20%, servicing costs not exceeding 40% of a household's income and a maximum maturity of 30 years.

14 Şub 2022