Self-criticism from the red mayor: “It doesn’t get much worse”
Even with the SPÖ, the mood is rather mau. The popular mayor of Traiskirchen, Andreas Babler, explains self-critically: “It doesn’t get much worse than that.” Babler also found the reaction following the election – the election goal of breaking the absolute of the ÖVP – was “unbearable” and ” an insult to all officials”. He admits that the SPÖ “of course made many mistakes”. “We have forgotten many of our principles”, according to Babler was one of these mistakes.
Lower Austria
Suspicion as early as 2013 – student abused: display apparently lost
Club: “Nobody approached us”
When asked regarding this, Philipp Schrangl, member of the board and legal adviser to the association, explained that they had never been aware of the advertisement at the time. “Nobody approached us. Otherwise we would have done everything in 2013 to clear up the incidents,” emphasized Schrangl in an interview with APA. He also regretted not having known anything regarding possible accomplices of the educator until the very end: “To this day we do not know whether any accomplices worked as supervisors for us or not.”
Mourning flags – First rebels in the flag dispute about the Queen
Bathing as an exception
A surprising exception is the spa town of Baden, whose deputy mayor, Helga Krismer, leader of the Green Party, says: “Baden is a modern city with the best international relations, and with British Bath we are on the UNESCO list of spa towns. Nevertheless, the mourning flag is inappropriate at the funeral of a monarch.” Sometimes also because Great Britain is no longer part of the EU. Krismer: “Personally, Brexit was a day for me when mourning flags would have been appropriate.”
“Clean” funding – fracking in Lower Austria: curse or blessing?
In contrast to the past, the new BEER process of the Styrian Montan University in Leoben should do without harmful chemicals during fracking. A new way of generating clean energy, they say. In addition, it should not only be able to be used to produce natural gas, but also to tap the geothermal energy for thermal energy use. A chance for many areas between Enns and Leitha. On the one hand, to make gas deposits in the Weinviertel usable. And on the other hand, to re-categorize the advantages of the NÖ-Thermenlinie.