Day: April 16, 2023

Vienna grows: 2-million mark could be cracked this year

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Vienna is slowly but surely heading towards two million inhabitants. According to the latest figures, Austria’s federal capital currently has 1,982,442 inhabitants. Due to the war in Ukraine, Vienna could break the two million inhabitant mark this year. In 2024, the new urban development plan will be presented to the city council for a decision. “In the new concept, we will focus even more than before on inner-city measures to make public space more attractive in response to the climate crisis,” the city of Vienna’s planning director, Thomas Madreiter, told…

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Vienna Energy Bonus 2023: How to get your money

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The payout of the Vienna Energy Bonus 2023 has already started.As of April 17, applications for the Vienna Energy Bonus 2023 can be submitted. We explain who is eligible and how you can get the support. Vienna extends “Energy Support Plus“The deadline for applications for the Vienna Energy Bonus 2023 begins on Monday, April 17. Single-person households with a gross annual income of up to 40,000 euros and multi-person households with a gross yearly income of up to 100,000 euros will be supported with 200 euros each. Up to 650,000…

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The recent onset of winter is about to be replaced by summer heat.

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The weather remains unsettled; on Thursday, even snowfall is forecast once again. But shortly after, a summer day will blossom for us. Also, at the beginning of the new week, April is moody; in the sphere of influence of an easterly current, it remains changeable and has a maximum average temperature. “Spring just doesn’t want to get going in April this year,” writes UBIMET meteorologist Konstantin Brandes. On Thursday, there should be a brief comeback of the winter roller with snowfall down to just below 1,000 meters. After that, however,…

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Pope wants to continue travelling despite knee problems

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Despite knee problems, Pope Francis wants to continue travelling. The Pope made the announcement Friday when he received in audience at the Vatican the executives and staff of ITA Airways, the Italian airline that accompanies him on international trips. The Pope praised “the very valuable service” of the airline staff, which “requires competence, care and attention to many details.” He did have some mobility problems, “but also thanks to your help I will continue to travel,” Francis said. “For me it is important to meet people, communities, believers, members of…

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New super plane: this aircraft is said to be carbon neutral

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In the wake of advancing climate change, people are increasingly looking for more sustainable alternatives for the environment. In particular, travel by air is increasingly criticized in this context. However, a Swiss company now claims to have found the ultimate solution to this problem. Here you can find out everything you need to know. Global warming continues to advance, and air travel is primarily criticized in this context. More and more parties are therefore looking for alternatives to curb the harmful effects on our environment further and enable a climate-friendly…

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Study reveals: Why vegan diets aren’t automatically healthy

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According to a study, women and men are not automatically health conscious. Researchers took a closer look at vegans’ dietary patterns and exercise behaviours. They found that vegan diets are not automatically health-conscious. The public often perceives women and men who avoid all animal products in their diet as particularly health-conscious. Researchers of the Center for Public Health of the Medical University of Vienna now investigated vegans’ dietary patterns and exercise behaviour. They could, in many cases, find a discrepancy between appearance and reality, as it was said on Thursday…

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Germany extends border controls with Austria by six months

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Germany is extending border controls with Austria for another six months, the German news agency dpa said Friday. Border control in the Balkans: announcement by NehammerGermany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is said to have written to the EU Commission, informing it that a sustained decline in irregular migration to Central and Western Europe was not expected. Germany justifies the extension of border controls with irregular migration“It is worrying that 2022 saw a peak in detected irregular migration at the EU’s external borders since 2016,” the German interior minister said. Germany…

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Fifth Corona vaccination also shows high effectiveness

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The coronavirus remains the high benefit of adapted vaccines as well. This resulted from an Israeli study in which many people had already been immunized for the fifth time. Among seniors, this reduced covid-19 mortality by 68 percent. The incidence of hospital admissions dropped by 72 percent. The study will be presented this weekend at the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases annual meeting in Copenhagen, and its full contents were published Thursday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. The background, according to Ronen Arbel of Israel’s largest…

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