Day: January 2, 2025

Full of hope and confidence: 25 reasons to look forward to 2025

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1. Health is and will remain the most valuable thing in life. Groundbreaking developments are emerging in medicine. Personalized vaccines could lead to a breakthrough in cancer treatment, while new drugs could significantly delay the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 2. The madness of the Second World War claimed an estimated 60 million lives. The victims are commemorated on Liberation Day, 8 May. A special day for Austria is 5 May, when Allied soldiers liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. 3. “Austria is free!” Austria’s sovereignty was officially restored on…

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Solar eclipse to stellar explosion: 2025 will be a special year

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Astronomers, sky enthusiasts and stargazers are eagerly looking forward to 2025. There will be more to see than there has been for a long time. For the head of the Vienna Astronomy Association (WAA), Alexander Pikhard, 2025 will be an “amazing year.” The highlights of the astronomy year 2025:Partial solar eclipse (29.3.)Total lunar eclipse (14.3.)Total lunar eclipse (7.9.)Shooting star swarms (e.g. on 13.8.)Star explosion in the “T Coronae Borealis” system (date not yet fixed)A solar eclipse can also be seen in AustriaThe partial solar eclipse is on 29 March. From…

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Austria: Taxes, subsidies, pensions, and cars: What consumers should know – 25 important changes in 2025

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The new year draws attention to many changes for consumers. There’s a lot of news about energy bills, for example, but also about taxes, pensions, and fees. Here are 25 important points for 2025. Home loans. The strict lending criteria for real estate loans will expire in mid-2025, so it should become easier to obtain home loans again. Since the summer of 2022, the so-called KIM Regulation has regulated, among other things, the equity share when taking out loans (at least 20 per cent) and the amount of the repayment…

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