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Open Letter Chancellor Kurz
Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz Federal Chancellery Ballhausplatz 2 1010 Vienna Austria 27 September 2018 Sebastian Kurz, your leadership is needed to protect the youth As the former President of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, I had the privileGe to visit many countries which stronGly reduced their smokinG rate and effectively protect their non-smokers. Austria was not yet able to do so. Now, I also have the Good fortune of havinG a younG man from Austria livinG in my home as part of a Student Exchange Scheme. I am concerned for his health and the health of his siblinGs, his friends and his fellow Austrians. That’s why I would like to share some of our experiences from Australia. Smoking in Austria and Australia The followinG OECD data show the ‘daily smokinG rates’ in our countries. Since the 1970s, there are sliGhtly more smokers in Austria but two-thirds less smokers in Australia: Source: https://data.oecd.orG/healthrisk/daily-smokers.htm This marked contrast is also seen in youth smokers. In Austria, 27% of 15 year olds were smokers in 2013. In Australia, younG people are now overwhelminGly rejectinG all forms of smokinG. In 2014 the percentaGe of i secondary students aGed 15 years who smoked tobacco was less than 5% . The latest statistics indicate that this has reduced even further, so that in 2016 less than 1% of 12-15 year olds had ever tried smokinGii. What could Austria learn from Australia? There are several lessons that can be learnt from the persistent approach taken by Australian governments. -
Austria FULL Constitution
AUSTRIA THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF 1920 as amended in 1929 as to Law No. 153/2004, December 30, 2004 Table of Contents CHAPTER I General Provisions European Union CHAPTER II Legislation of the Federation CHAPTER III Federal Execution CHAPTER IV Legislation and Execution by the Länder CHAPTER V Control of Accounts and Financial Management CHAPTER VI Constitutional and Administrative Guarantees CHAPTER VII The Office of the People’s Attorney ( Volksanwaltschaft ) CHAPTER VIII Final Provisions CHAPTER I General Provisions European Union A. General Provisions Article 1 Austria is a democratic republic. Its law emanates from the people. Article 2 (1) Austria is a Federal State. (2) The Federal State is constituted from independent Länder : Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tirol, Vorarlberg and Vienna. Article 3 (1) The Federal territory comprises the territories ( Gebiete ) of the Federal Länder . (2) A change of the Federal territory, which is at the same time a change of a Land territory (Landesgebiet ), just as the change of a Land boundary inside the Federal territory, can—apart from peace treaties—take place only from harmonizing constitutional laws of the Federation (Bund ) and the Land , whose territory experiences change. Article 4 (1) The Federal territory forms a unitary currency, economic and customs area. (2) Internal customs borders ( Zwischenzollinien ) or other traffic restrictions may not be established within the Federation. Article 5 (1) The Federal Capital and the seat of the supreme bodies of the Federation is Vienna. (2) For the duration of extraordinary circumstances the Federal President, on the petition of the Federal Government, may move the seat of the supreme bodies of the Federation to another location in the Federal territory. -
Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria 2
OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Austria Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight 2020 OECD work on RIA: http://oe.cd/ria OECD work on regulatory policy: http://oe.cd/regpol For further information, please contact: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria 2 The Action was carried out with funding by the European Union via the Structural Reform Support Programme and in cooperation with the European Commission's DG Structural Reform Support. This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. Please cite this publication as: OECD (2020), “Regulatory Impact Assessment and Regulatory Oversight in Austria”, OECD, Paris. The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law. Photo credits: Cover © Ugorenkov Aleksandr/Shutterstock.com; © Dmitry Rukhlenko/Shutterstock.com; © Botond Horvath/Shutterstock.com; © Maxim Weise/Shutterstock.com; © Photo Oz/Shutterstock.com. © OECD 2020 The use of this work, whether digital or print, is governed by the Terms and Conditions to be found at http://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions. REGULATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND REGULATORY OVERSIGHT IN AUSTRIA © OECD 2020 3 Acknowledgements The OECD work on regulatory policy is co-ordinated by the Directorate for Public Governance, under the responsibility of Janos Bertok, and is carried out by the Regulatory Policy Division, under the guidance of Nick Malyshev. -
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN STUDIES Volume 18
The Schüssel Era in Austria Günter Bischof, Fritz Plasser (Eds.) CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN STUDIES Volume 18 innsbruck university press Copyright ©2010 by University of New Orleans Press, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to UNO Press, University of New Orleans, ED 210, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA, 70119, USA. www.unopress.org. Printed in the United States of America. Published and distributed in the United States by Published and distributed in Europe by University of New Orleans Press: Innsbruck University Press: ISBN 978-1-60801-009-7 ISBN 978-3-902719-29-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009936824 Contemporary Austrian Studies Sponsored by the University of New Orleans and Universität Innsbruck Editors Günter Bischof, CenterAustria, University of New Orleans Fritz Plasser, Universität Innsbruck Production Editor Copy Editor Assistant Editor Ellen Palli Jennifer Shimek Michael Maier Universität Innsbruck Loyola University, New Orleans UNO/Vienna Executive Editors Franz Mathis, Universität Innsbruck Susan Krantz, University of New Orleans Advisory Board Siegfried Beer Sándor Kurtán Universität Graz Corvinus University Budapest Peter Berger Günther Pallaver Wirtschaftsuniversität -
Media Timetable
Media Timetable Due to security measures please make sure to arrive 15 minutes prior to all media events. Federal Chancellery Wednesday, 26 August 2015 11.55 am Arrival of the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Hercegovina Dragan Čović and the President of Montenegro Filip Vujanović at the office of the Austrian Federal President; Welcome of the Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer (Office of the Austrian Federal President, Ballhausplatz, 1010 Vienna, Maria- Theresien-Zimmer) 12.00 noon Film & Photo-op with all three Heads of States in the Maria-Theresien- Zimmer 12.35 pm Film & Photo-op Signing of the border agreement between Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina by the Minister for Interior Raško Konjević (Montenegro) and Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak (Bosnia and Herzegowina) (Maria-Theresien-Zimmer) 12.40 pm Press statement of the Heads of States Welcome words by the Austrian Federal President (English) Statement by President Filip Vujanović (Montenegrin) Statement by Chairman Dragan Čović (Croatian) (Maria-Theresien-Zimmer; consecutive Interpretation) Thursday, 27 August 2015 10.30 am Film & Photo-op Arrival of the Prime Ministers participating at the Western Balkans Summit at the Josefsplatz (Hofburg, 1010 Vienna) 11.00 am Opening of the Prime Minister segment of the Western Balkans Summit (Hofburg, Kleiner Redoutensaal) Open for media 12.55 pm Group picture with all participating Ministers and Prime Ministers (Hofburg, Großer Redoutensaal) 2.30 pm Press Conference with the Austrian Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann, the -
Austria Election Preview: Sebastian Kurz and the Rise of the Austrian ‘Anti-Party’ Page 1 of 4
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog: Austria election preview: Sebastian Kurz and the rise of the Austrian ‘anti-party’ Page 1 of 4 Austria election preview: Sebastian Kurz and the rise of the Austrian ‘anti-party’ Austria goes to the polls on 15 October, with the centre-right ÖVP, led by 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz, currently ahead in the polls. Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Eva Zeglovits and Hubert Sickinger provide a comprehensive preview of the vote, writing that although polling is consistent with the idea the ÖVP and Kurz are the probable election winners, a noteworthy number of voters are still undecided. Kurz becoming the next chancellor is thus not as set in stone as Angela Merkel’s win in Germany was. Credit: Michael Tholen (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Austria’s last parliamentary election in September 2013 resulted in two new parties gaining parliamentary representation, the populist Team Stronach (founded by billionaire Frank Stronach) and the liberal NEOS, while the BZÖ, Jörg Haider’s party which was in government between 2002 and 2006, failed to pass the threshold for parliamentary representation. The governing parties, the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the People’s Party (ÖVP), recorded all-time lows in support, but still formed a coalition after the election. Team Stronach, however, deteriorated into insignificance very soon afterwards. Since then, however, Austrian voters have become increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of the SPÖ- ÖVP government. Eventually, the so-called refugee crisis in 2015 led to the right-wing populist FPÖ surging into first place in the polls. Soon after, in 2016, both government parties suffered a heavy defeat in the presidential elections, when their candidates gained only around 10% of the vote each, and failed to participate in the second, decisive round of the contest. -
The Ends of Four Big Inflations
This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Inflation: Causes and Effects Volume Author/Editor: Robert E. Hall Volume Publisher: University of Chicago Press Volume ISBN: 0-226-31323-9 Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/hall82-1 Publication Date: 1982 Chapter Title: The Ends of Four Big Inflations Chapter Author: Thomas J. Sargent Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c11452 Chapter pages in book: (p. 41 - 98) The Ends of Four Big Inflations Thomas J. Sargent 2.1 Introduction Since the middle 1960s, many Western economies have experienced persistent and growing rates of inflation. Some prominent economists and statesmen have become convinced that this inflation has a stubborn, self-sustaining momentum and that either it simply is not susceptible to cure by conventional measures of monetary and fiscal restraint or, in terms of the consequent widespread and sustained unemployment, the cost of eradicating inflation by monetary and fiscal measures would be prohibitively high. It is often claimed that there is an underlying rate of inflation which responds slowly, if at all, to restrictive monetary and fiscal measures.1 Evidently, this underlying rate of inflation is the rate of inflation that firms and workers have come to expect will prevail in the future. There is momentum in this process because firms and workers supposedly form their expectations by extrapolating past rates of inflation into the future. If this is true, the years from the middle 1960s to the early 1980s have left firms and workers with a legacy of high expected rates of inflation which promise to respond only slowly, if at all, to restrictive monetary and fiscal policy actions. -
Karl Brandt, Philipp Bouhler, Viktor Brack, and Leonardo Conti
Western Illinois Historical Review © 2015 Vol. VII, Spring 2015 ISSN 2153-1714 The Administration of Death: Karl Brandt, Philipp Bouhler, Viktor Brack, and Leonardo Conti Zacharey Crawford Abstract This essay provides a new perspective on the administrative structures of the Nazi euthanasia programs of 1939-1942. The focus is on the four key individuals involved in the planning and execution of the program: Dr. Karl Brandt, Viktor Brack, Philipp Bouhler, and Dr. Leonardo Conti. The most lethal phase of the Holocaust commenced with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941. Beginning in December of that year, scores of victims were systematically gassed in Nazi extermination camps, but the methods used in the destruction of the European Jews had been developed and tested much earlier. The euthanasia program (Operation T4) that had been carried out by the Nazis between late 1938 and August 1941 laid the ground for the killing methods used in the Holocaust.1 It was the Nazis’ goal to create a racially defined Volksgemeinschaft or people’s community that excluded all individuals and 1 The most important studies on this topic are Michael Burleigh, Death and Deliverance: ‘Euthanasia’ in Germany 1900-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Götz Aly, Peter Chroust, and Christian Pross, Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 59 groups who did not fit Nazi criteria of racial purity and superiority.2 While Jews were the Nazis’ main target, other groups were also excluded, for instance Sinti and Roma and so-called “aliens to the community.”3 Children and adults with physical and mental disabilities that were deemed to be “unworthy of life” became victims of the euthanasia program. -
Austria: Europe's Center of Opportunity
CONTENT FROM COUNTRY REPORTS AUSTRIA Austria: Europe’s center of opportunity A new government brings an investor-friendly outlook to the country Having elected a young and dynamic new government headed by Chancellor RA DU Sebastian Kurz in 2017, 2018 saw one of the world’s most important econo- A S K Y mies return to the international spotlight—Austria, a country geographically R N and ideologically located at the heart of Europe and the European Union HE / (EU) that “acts as a bridge builder between the east and west,” states Kurz. CK TO It has consistently ranked as a leading destination for foreign direct invest- ERS ment (FDI) for many years, as well as “probably the most secure and most HUTT S beautiful place to live,” he says. But international interest is increasing in a country predicted to see its economy’s success outstripping that of many other IMAGE: © IMAGE: EU countries, including Germany. Reflecting on some of the achievements his government has overseen after just a year in power, Kurz notes that Austria has reached its first budget surplus for 65 years. In addition, “We have an tation hubs are opening, and the government is investing in advancing digital economic growth rate of close to three percent and unemployment is going skills and e-government, she says. down; we are now on the right path to achieve even better results,” he says. Schramböck believes that new technologies will “help us to reindustrialize This path includes a number of major economic reforms. “We have re- Austria and Europe. As an example, the world’s most modern digital steel formed the labor law to make it more flexible and we have started to reduce factory is going to be built in Austria, creating jobs and a new type of industry the tax burden so that we become more competitive again,” explains Kurz. -
GENERAL ELECTIONS in AUSTRIA 29Th September 2013
GENERAL ELECTIONS IN AUSTRIA 29th September 2013 European Elections monitor The Social Democratic Party’s “grand coalition” re-elected in Austria Corinne Deloy Translated by Helen Levy Like their German neighbours (with whom they share the same satisfactory economic results) the Austrians chose to re-elect their leaders in the general elections on 29th September. Both countries are also due to be governed by grand coalitions rallying the two main political parties – one on the left and the other on the right – during the next legislature. Results As expected the outgoing government coalition formed With 5.8% of the vote (11 seats), the Team Stronach by the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) of outgoing for Austria, a populist, eurosceptic party founded in Chancellor Werner Faymann and the People’s Party September 2012 by Austro-Canadian businessman (ÖVP) of Vice-Chancellor Michael Spindelegger, came Frank Stronach, will be making its debut in the Natio- out ahead in the election. The SPÖ won 27.1% of the nal Council (Nationalrat), the lower chamber of parlia- vote and 53 seats (five less in comparison with the ment, likewise the Neos-New Austria, a liberal party previous election on 28th September 2008); the ÖVP created on 27th October 2012 by Matthias Strolz, a won 23.8% and 46 seats (- 4). The election illustrates former ÖVP member and supported by the industrialist the continued decline in the electorate of both parties: Hans Peter Haselsteiner, which won 4.8% of the vote together they achieved the lowest score in their his- and 9 seats. tory, mobilizing just half of the electorate (50.9%, i.e. -
Austrian Federalism in Comparative Perspective
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN STUDIES | VOLUME 24 Bischof, Karlhofer (Eds.), Williamson (Guest Ed.) • 1914: Aus tria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I War of World the Origins, and First Year tria-Hungary, Austrian Federalism in Comparative Perspective Günter Bischof AustrianFerdinand Federalism Karlhofer (Eds.) in Comparative Perspective Günter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer (Eds.) UNO UNO PRESS innsbruck university press UNO PRESS innsbruck university press Austrian Federalism in ŽŵƉĂƌĂƟǀĞWĞƌƐƉĞĐƟǀĞ Günter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer (Eds.) CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN STUDIES | VOLUME 24 UNO PRESS innsbruck university press Copyright © 2015 by University of New Orleans Press All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage nd retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to UNO Press, University of New Orleans, LA 138, 2000 Lakeshore Drive. New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA. www.unopress.org. Printed in the United States of America Book design by Allison Reu and Alex Dimeff Cover photo © Parlamentsdirektion Published in the United States by Published and distributed in Europe University of New Orleans Press by Innsbruck University Press ISBN: 9781608011124 ISBN: 9783902936691 UNO PRESS Publication of this volume has been made possible through generous grants from the the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration, and Foreign Affairs in Vienna through the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, as well as the Federal Ministry of Economics, Science, and Research through the Austrian Academic Exchange Service (ÖAAD). The Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Foundation in Vienna has been very generous in supporting Center Austria: The Austrian Marshall Plan Center for European Studies at the University of New Orleans and its publications series. -
Austria Aims for Tax Agreement with Liechtenstein by Stefanie Steiner and Christian Wimpissinger
Volume 66, Number 5 April 30, 2012 (C) Tax Analysts 2012. All rights reserved. Tax Analysts does not claim copyright in any public domain or third party content. Austria Aims for Tax Agreement With Liechtenstein by Stefanie Steiner and Christian Wimpissinger Reprinted from Tax Notes Int’l, April 30, 2012, p. 414 Reprinted from Tax Notes Int’l, April 30, 2012, p. 414 COUNTRY (C) Tax Analysts 2012. All rights reserved. Tax Analysts does not claim copyright in any public domain or third party content. DIGEST Austria Aims for Tax Agreement With stein by Austrian taxpayers are held by foundations, which number about 50,000 in a country less than Liechtenstein double the size of Manhattan (160 square kilometers). The Austrian government has announced its inten- Foundations offer a particular feature that appeals to tion to negotiate a bilateral withholding tax agreement some taxpayers: The beneficiaries generally are not with Liechtenstein and to finalize it by the end of identified in public documents. An Austria- April. Liechtenstein agreement that is based on the rationale The Liechtenstein agreement should focus not only of the Swiss agreement but focuses on foundations on bank accounts, but even more, on undeclared invest- would be much more complicated to administer. While ments held in Liechtenstein foundations (stiftungen), the the banking market consists of a specific number of Austrian government said. However, Finance Secretary banks with access to a large number of customers, the Andreas Schieder noted that unlike the negotiations number of foundations, as previously noted, is ex- with Switzerland, talks with Liechtenstein might be tremely high, and each foundation has only a small more cumbersome, both legally and politically.