Ruling parties meet to resolve media and welfare deadlock
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A top-level meeting tomorrow may decide the fate of media funding and social welfare, provided the governing parties can settle a dispute that has hardened in recent weeks. They are seeking a solution just as the country’s economic mood sours; the head of the Wifo economic institute notes that the average citizen has simply stopped consuming.
Winter is expected to be expensive. Inflation sits at 3.6 percent, but the expiry of new-customer bonuses and the ripple effects of the Iran war mean electricity and gas bills are set to rise. Students at the Academy of Fine Arts have occupied their building to protest tuition fees, while teachers describe the new secondary school curriculum as unrealistic to implement.
The public prosecutor has filed a complaint regarding the ankle monitor worn by the investor Ren Benko, whose legal status remains under scrutiny. In the east, indications are growing regarding a planned data center in Burgenland.