Friday, May 20th 2016, 5pm, atViktor Adler market in the 10th district of Vienna. It's the final rally of presidential candidate Norbert Hofer. Interesting choice of location: relatively small for such an event, only two corners away from the localities of…
Discussion evening of „Väter ohne Rechte“ (fathers without rights) in Vienna Men and gender politics - that clicks! The Munich-based gender researcher John Meiners puts research results up for discussion. The relations betwen the sexes have changed a lot in Western…
In an open letter, 72 civil society organizations from 31 countries, including the AKVorrat, are addressing the European telecom regulators today, calling for strong protection of the principle of net neutrality in the ongoing negotiations on the implementation of the…
Much has been written about the largest bank failure in Austrian history. So much in fact, that it was and still is difficult for observers to find to find the red / black / blue thread within the jumble of…
The pollsters’ astonishment was great. Not even in the autumn of 2015 in Vienna had they been as far off as in the first round of the presidential election. Yet another head-to-head race, which failed to materialize. Given the ever…
Today, the AK Vorrat published their statement on Minister of Justice Brandstetter’s proposal to introduce a governmental monitoring software (Federal Trojan). The detailed legal and technical statement shows, why this ad hoc legislation causes more problems than it can solve. PDF…
The justice department is working on an above board regulation to legalize the so-called ‘Bundestrojaner’ (Federal Trojan). Minister of justice Brandstetter is doing the utmost to grace the planned surveillance software with a new name – yet software planted by…
The German state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt are fought, the results bring electoral victory for the current office holders and also resulted in an AfD now strongly represented in all three diets.
