https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, on his first trip abroad Thursday since being re-elected, failed to persuade the governments of four central European countries to give up on nuclear energy which they largely depend on. https://www.thelocal.at/20200117/austria-fails-to-win-over-neighbours-for-nuclear-phase-out Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:42:25 +0100 austria-fails-to-win-over-neighbours-for-nuclear-phase-out Austria's Greens on Saturday gave the go-ahead to a coalition with the country's conservatives at a party congress in Salzburg, removing the last obstacle to the unprecedented alliance. https://www.thelocal.at/20200105/austrias-greens-vote-to-join-conservatives-in-coalition Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:56:20 +0100 austrias-greens-vote-to-join-conservatives-in-coalition A research team has made huge gains in one of the global energy industry’s most critical issues after managing to store world record amounts of thermal energy in Austria https://www.thelocal.at/20160609/world-record-amount-of-solar-energy-stored-in-austria Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:40:56 +0200 world-record-amount-of-solar-energy-stored-in-austria Broke, remote and deprived of jobs -- just 25 years ago, the border town of Güssing close to Hungary was one of the poorest in Austria, a forgotten frontier along the Iron Curtain trail. https://www.thelocal.at/20151128/green-energy-puts-guessing-on-the-map Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:48:31 +0100 green-energy-puts-guessing-on-the-map Vienna came second place in an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) poll of the most pleasant cities to live in - after Melbourne which has topped the ranking for the fourth year running. https://www.thelocal.at/20140819/vienna-is-second-most-liveable-city Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:05:00 +0200 vienna-is-second-most-liveable-city