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Tyrolean daily newspaper “Leitartikel” from November 4th, 2023 by Marco Witting “Everything on one card”

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-11-03 21:00:37

Innsbruck (OTS) – The poker for the mayor’s chair in Innsbruck has long been open. The somewhat united bourgeois camp around Florian Tursky will hype the duel with incumbent Georg Willi and declare a choice of direction.

All in – in the political poker game surrounding the Innsbruck municipal council elections in 2024, this seems to be the motto of all parties. But it’s all or nothing, especially for the now somewhat united bourgeois camp around the ÖVP, For Innsbruck and the Senior Citizens’ Association. State Secretary for Digitalization Florian Tursky is also putting everything on one political card with his candidacy. And you can already guess the trump card that “the New Innsbruck” will play. Tursky will present himself as a candidate who has nothing to do with the complete chaos of the period that is coming to an end and as the only one who can defeat incumbent Georg Willi in a runoff election. All in – to bring Innsbruck back for the ÖVP and to immediately give Tursky the best cards at the state level, as the jack of hearts, so to speak.
But it’s not that far yet, because now the toughest and most exciting election battle the state capital has ever seen is regarding to begin. Tursky’s start was rocky. The weeks of discussions surrounding VP Vice Hannes Anzengruber, who is known to be running with his own list following internal quarrels, had two effects. The State Secretary for Digitalization is now known, which was not the case before the internal party dispute, but Tursky can shake off the narrative of a united middle class. Yesterday’s city party conference mightn’t change that.
The new list will cost Anzengruber votes. How many? Nobody can seriously say that six months before the election. It will take a strong campaign for Tursky to even make it to the runoff. He will never tire of emphasizing that only he can bring regarding change in the city and beat incumbent Willi in a runoff election. It is somewhat surprising that the People’s Party, obviously the political home of all its proponents, does not appear at all – apart from the imprint on the homepage of “The New Innsbruck”. It remains to be seen whether this was the only compromise to bring Für Innsbruck on board.
New name, new candidate, new list. Thematically, there’s probably nothing entirely new. This is how you want to present yourself. The election campaign, which somehow seems to have already started, will not be one anyway, the status is now being decided on an issue. It will probably come down to a directional decision. And the more a conflict between the camps on the left and right of center escalates, the better the cards would be for Tursky.

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TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG “Editorial” from October 31, 2023 by Alois Vahrner “Not an untroubled holiday of savings”

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-10-30 23:52:35

Innsbruck (OTS) – World Savings Day has become less important than it used to be, but today many children make pilgrimages to the banks, especially for gifts. The last few years have of course brought bitter losses to savers.

For years, as a result of the zero interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB), which literally flooded the markets with money for the benefit and pleasure of the highly indebted European countries, savers had minimal interest costs. Anyone who had money and wanted to deposit it risk-free in savings accounts (and not invest in securities with higher opportunities but also higher risk) lost a lot of money. Year following year, savers have actually lost double-digit billions of dollars. A kind of silent expropriation. Unsurprisingly, the popularity of the savings accounts previously promoted by financial institutions, especially for children and smaller and quickly available investments, has suffered quite a bit as a result of this – and with this development also the appeal of the annual World Savings Day on October 31st.
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, there was a wave of inflation that had not been seen for several decades. The ECB had previously downplayed and underestimated the already visible risk of inflation, before raising key interest rates ten times in a row since the summer of 2022, currently at 4.5 percent.
With this abrupt change in interest rates in the fight once morest inflation, interest is now available once more for savers following an extremely long dry spell. Of course, these are well below the inflation that is still above average in Austria. Despite very respectable interest rates, real savings remain in the billions.
Recent surveys of the population reveal a completely contradictory picture: consumption has become more expensive across the board, but many people still have the desire to buy, even though they are increasingly turning to cheaper products. And although inflation affects everyone and there are real losses, at least with low-risk investments, the savings rate is still a high 9 percent of average income.
World Savings Day has always been a lever for politicians and banks to convey to children and young people the meaning of saving and using money responsibly. Without interest, this has hardly been possible in recent years. At the same time, it’s not just debt advisors who are alarmed that more and more young people under 30 are heavily indebted. Too little financial education, but also social pressure and the desire for recognition through material status symbols have exacerbated this trend. And also the indirect message through the policies of governments and the ECB that money costs nothing and is ultimately available indefinitely.

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TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG “Editorial” edition from Thursday, October 12, 2023, by Michael Sprenger: “The Politics of Carnage”

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-10-11 20:00:29

Innsbruck, Vienna (OTS) – Hamas’s sole goal was to massacre Jews. She doesn’t care regarding the Palestinian population. But how to deal with it? Waving flags is tantamount to saying goodbye to the achievements of civilization.

Stunned. And this word is a far understatement when you consider the brutality with which the Islamist Hamas indiscriminately executed children, women, men and the elderly on Saturday in Kibbutz Be’eri. It was an act of barbarism how Hamas shot, beheaded or kidnapped young music-loving people at a rave party in the Negev desert.
After the Shoah, the Jews experience another tragedy. Of all places, in the country that was created following National Socialism to prevent such a catastrophe from ever happening to the Jewish population once more. And now the Israeli population had to bitterly learn: Jews can be executed indiscriminately in their own state. It must have been like a pogrom for the people of Israel.
Anyone who does not have empathetic feelings towards the Israeli civilian population in view of these images, or who waves the flag of Palestine or even Hamas in this country, is saying goodbye to all civilizational achievements. A political fiasco. Because the Islamist Hamas has very little or nothing to do with the politics of the PLO, but a lot to do with the Islamic State. While Fatah, as the dominant force in the PLO, wanted to establish an independent democratic state alongside Israel, Hamas pursued the goal of destroying Israel in order to be able to proclaim an Islamic state. They will not achieve the goal, but they will continue their slaughter with holy warriors. She doesn’t care at all regarding the survival of the Palestinian civilian population.
The Israeli government now once once more has a crucial role to play. It will reduce the Gaza Strip, a prison built by Israel for two million people, to rubble. This is what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced when he said: “Our enemy will pay a price the likes of which he has never known.”
So should we then wave Israeli flags when the streets are paved with dead children, women, men and the elderly during a hail of bombs on Gaza during an expected ground offensive? That would make us roommates in a pandemonium, a place full of horrors. To philosophize regarding any solution in the face of this tragedy that has been going on in the Middle East for decades is probably more than just naive. But this should not prevent us from speaking out when innocent people have to pay the price for these policies of both.

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TIROLER TAGESZEITUNG “Leitarikel” edition from Wednesday, October 11, 2023, by Michael Sprenger: “A defeat as an opportunity”

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

2023-10-10 20:00:41

Innsbruck, Vienna (OTS) – The Constitutional Court’s ruling on ORF represents a turning point. The government will probably have to work on reform immediately – once morest its own interests. Because the ORF does not belong to the parties, not to politics.

It was the former ÖVP Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel who tried to secure the (always existing) influence of the governments and thus the parties on the ORF with a large-scale label fraud. He promised depoliticization, but his reform wanted and achieved the opposite. Much to the chagrin of the journalists working there. But none of the subsequent governments seriously considered changing this. Why? Governments have always viewed the ORF as a means of securing their power. Some acted cautiously, some shamelessly.
Former ORF general Gerhard Weis once called this the “original tragedy” of public broadcasting when he stated in an interview: “Who owns the ORF? Well, the parties, who else?”
This is also how the Kurz I and II cabinets acted. But the “Sideletters” that later became known (i.e. side agreements to the coalition agreement), with which Turquoise-Blue and Turquoise-Green had negotiated appointments to the Board of Trustees and the ORF, left the gate open, which the Burgenland governor Hans Peter Doskozil passed through. He initiated a review request. And the highest judges found the Social Democrats right on key points. The regulations governing the composition of the ORF Foundation and Audience Council are largely unconstitutional. Translated, this means: The excessive influence of the federal government contradicts the “requirement of independence and pluralism”.
On the one hand, the Constitutional Court meant well for the legislature, giving it until the end of March 2025 to carry out repairs. But at the same time, the ORF is under enormous economic and political pressure. The government must therefore quickly and conscientiously create a reform, also in order to be able to subsequently legitimize the budget tax, which is controversial among large parts of the population.
But this can only be achieved if one thing is made clear from the start: the ORF does not belong to any party or government, but to the citizens who also finance it.
Admittedly, a challenge, because the government would have to act once morest its own interests. But to secure an ailing democracy, this is the order of the day. And yes, this defeat offers another chance to finally pass broad media reform. The rulers have so far not been willing to do this because of their fear of the boulevard.

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