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 The leader of Austria's far-right party raised the prospect Monday of forming a common bloc in the European Parliament with the party of nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. https://www.thelocal.at/20180911/austrian-far-right-invites-orban-to-form-joint-eu-bloc Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:03:45 +0200 austrian-far-right-invites-orban-to-form-joint-eu-bloc Austria said on Friday it would launch a lawsuit against the European Union's approval of the Russian-financed expansion of a nuclear plant in Hungary. https://www.thelocal.at/20171014/austria-to-sue-over-hungary-nuclear-plant-expansion Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:40:39 +0200 austria-to-sue-over-hungary-nuclear-plant-expansion The alleged kingpin of a human trafficking gang accused of killing 71 migrants found in a truck in Austria refused to testify on the second day of his trial on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.at/20170623/migrant-death-truck-mastermind-tight-lipped-at-trial Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:32:39 +0200 migrant-death-truck-mastermind-tight-lipped-at-trial Eleven men go on trial on Wednesday over the horrific deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly two years ago, in one of the most disturbing cases marking Europe's migration crisis. https://www.thelocal.at/20170621/eleven-men-go-on-trial-over-horrific-deaths-of-71-migrants-in-a-truck-in-austria Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:01:28 +0200 eleven-men-go-on-trial-over-horrific-deaths-of-71-migrants-in-a-truck-in-austria EU authorities on Monday approved a controversial nuclear expansion project in Hungary that is heavily backed by Russia. https://www.thelocal.at/20170307/austria-fumes-at-hungary-kremlin-backed-nuclear-plant Tue, 07 Mar 2017 10:13:50 +0100 austria-fumes-at-hungary-kremlin-backed-nuclear-plant Austria has sent 60 troops to Hungary's border with non-EU Serbia as Vienna's defence minister warned that the EU's migrants deal with Turkey was "showing cracks". https://www.thelocal.at/20161103/austria-sends-troops-to-hungary-serbia-border Thu, 03 Nov 2016 13:31:44 +0100 austria-sends-troops-to-hungary-serbia-border Hungarian police will seek charges against eight suspects after completing a probe into the deaths of 71 migrants and refugees found in a truck in Austria last year, in a case that sent shockwaves through Europe. https://www.thelocal.at/20161012/austria-migrant-truck-deaths-probe-complete Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:25:00 +0200 austria-migrant-truck-deaths-probe-complete Austria on Friday offered to help Hungary secure its border with Serbia, which is already well-protected but where migrants continue to cross in a bid to reach northern Europe. https://www.thelocal.at/20160617/austria-wants-hungary-to-have-better-borders Sat, 18 Jun 2016 01:32:35 +0200 austria-wants-hungary-to-have-better-borders The interior ministers of Austria, Hungary and Serbia have signed an agreement to send more personnel and technical equipment to joint police patrols on Serbia's borders with Hungary and Macedonia. https://www.thelocal.at/20150701/austria-to-help-hungary-secure-borders-and-cope-with-migrant-wave Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:48:45 +0200 austria-to-help-hungary-secure-borders-and-cope-with-migrant-wave A criminal gang has been arrested in Hungary after kidnapping a man in Vienna and imprisoning him for a month in a forest hut, according to Budapest police. https://www.thelocal.at/20141017/hungarian-gang-kidnapped-vienna-man Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:54:00 +0200 hungarian-gang-kidnapped-vienna-man A 36-year-old Austrian man who was jailed in Hungary last month for killing a police officer has died due to respiratory arrest in Szeged prison on Friday, according to a report in the Hungarian tabloid Blikk. https://www.thelocal.at/20141015/cop-killing-austrian-dies-in-hungarian-prison Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:30:00 +0200 cop-killing-austrian-dies-in-hungarian-prison A 36-year-old Austrian man who killed a Hungarian police officer by running him over with his Hummer in Apatfalva, Hungary, has been jailed for 15 years. https://www.thelocal.at/20140925/austrian-jailed-for-killing-cop-in-hungary Thu, 25 Sep 2014 15:11:09 +0200 austrian-jailed-for-killing-cop-in-hungary