Cash payments over 10,000 euros prohibited

Cash payments of more than 10,000 euros will be banned in the European Union. Negotiators from the European Parliament and member states agreed on EU-wide regulations against money laundering on Thursday, intending to close loopholes in national laws. Dealers in luxury goods will also have to verify the identity of their customers and report suspicious transactions to the authorities. Trade in luxury goodsThe stricter rules apply to the trade in jewelry, luxury cars, private aircraft, and ships, among other things. According to the agreement, the new law will apply to…

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Weather forecast: Brief onset of winter before it gets warmer again

Geosphere Austria is forecasting a brief onset of winter on Friday night before the weather becomes increasingly mild again. Although the highs will rise steadily until Tuesday, reaching twelve degrees, the early temperatures will remain frosty.Friday morning will still bring plenty of clouds and snow in the country’s southern parts and partly in the west; otherwise, it will be mostly dry. In the afternoon, the clouds will clear quickly from the northwest, and the sun will often still be out. It will remain largely cloudy only in the south and…

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Corona vaccination has already saved around 25,000 lives in Austria

By March 2023, coronavirus vaccinations had saved over 1.4 million lives in Europe and around 25,000 in Austria. This resulted from a World Health Organization (WHO) Respiratory Disease Surveillance Network study. The study shows once again: “It becomes critical from the age of 60,” and vaccination is “essential” from the age of 80, wrote molecular biologist Martin Moder on Platform X on Wednesday. Most deaths were prevented after the third dose. Research results have not yet been published in a specialist journalThe research results were published on a preprint server,…

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10 things that happen when you eat an egg every day

Do you eat eggs sparingly so as not to drive up your cholesterol levels? In fact, the food doesn’t have the best reputation at the moment; it doesn’t fit in with the trendy vegan lifestyle and is perceived as unhealthy by many people. The latter is completely wrong! We’ll tell you why you should definitely include eggs in your daily diet. These things happen when you eat an egg every day: You lose weightStudies have shown that people who eat eggs for breakfast lose weight faster. This is because eggs…

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This is the safest seat on an airplane

Airplanes are becoming safer and safer, and flying is generally the safest form of transportation. Regarding flight safety, 2023 was the second safest year on record. The Flight Safety Foundation evaluates incidents and accidents every year. There were 135 accidents, five fatalities, and 105 passenger deaths on the 35 million routes examined. The average over the last five years is 13 fatal accidents and 300 deaths per year. That may sound like a lot, but it’s still dramatically low. A study by Northwestern University in the USA compared the death…

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Risks of shopping at online low-cost stores!

Everything under 100 euros and two free printers to boot: Who wouldn’t go for it? But, as usual, there is a catch. Online stores with breathtakingly low prices are no longer a rarity. We come across them on almost all platforms, and they are becoming increasingly visible with all kinds of advertising campaigns. The online mail-order company Temu, in particular, has been indispensable in Europe since the beginning of 2023 at the latest and is currently high up on the app charts. According to lawyer Christian Solmecke, partner at law…

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Are headphones safe or harmful?

There are now different types of headphones, with or without cables, large or small. When they harm our hearing health. Most of us use headphones every day to listen to music or podcasts; some of us even watch a series. Headphones have even become very popular for making phone calls. Is this harmful to us, or are headphones safe? Headphones only have a negative impact on our hearing health if we exceed the usage time and the volume is permanently too high. The incorrect use of them repeatedly causes hearing…

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Freezing rain now brings danger of black ice

Basically, a warm front with dense clouds lies over Austria in the middle of the week. The chances of sunshine will therefore, remain low until the evening. In Tyrol and Vorarlberg, it is already raining frequently in the morning with a rapidly rising snow line. Slippery roads due to freezing precipitation are to be expected in basins and valleys. By the evening, precipitation will also begin to fall in the parts of the country north of the Danube and occasionally in East Tyrol, Carinthia, and Salzburg. Here, too, there is…

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The most powerful passports in the world in 2024

The Henley Passport Index provides an up-to-date insight into the state of freedom to travel worldwide. Based on data from the world’s largest database for travel information, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), among others, the ranking compiled by the consulting firm Henley & Partners lists all 199 passports in the world according to the number of destinations that passport holders can visit without first applying for a visa. Towards the end of 2023, Japan lost its place at the top of the pass rankings for the first time in…

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