Wolfgang Sobotka

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Austrian Parliament Speaker Wolfgang Sobotka on Wednesday, noting that Austria is an important partner of Serbia in various fields, especially in economic cooperation, which he said was expected to strengthen further.

VIENNA  - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic, who is visiting Austria, met with OSCE Secretary-General Helga Schmidt in Vienna on Wednesday.

Prior to the meeting with Schmidt, Dacic spoke with Austrian Parliament Speaker Wolfgang Sobotka, and his visit to Austria will be concluded with a meeting with FM Alexander Schallenberg.

On 3 and 4 October, Head of State Rumen Radev will pay an official visit to the Republic of Austria. The visit is at the invitation of Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.

The visit of Rumen Radev will start on October 3 with a meeting with our compatriots who live and work in Austria.

VIENNA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and President of the Austrian National Council Wolfgang Sobotka met in Vienna on Friday.

Serbia's EU accession is very significant for Austria, which will continue to support Serbia's European integration, it was said at the meeting.

Austria's Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka is launching a new initiative for returning illegal migrants.

Sobotka's aim is to return 50,000 asylum-seekers from Austria by the end of 2019.

Austrian authorities have now agreed a draft law under which rejected refugees will no longer be entitled to provisions paid for by the country’s taxpayers.
The bill is part of a wider reform of laws dealing with foreigners in Austria.
The bill would make asylum applicants who lie about their identities face fines of up to 5,000 euros or three weeks in jail.

Austria's intelligence services confirmed a news report on Feb. 28 that they had tracked down a U.S.-based Turkish hacker who attacked several government websites.

The report in the daily Kurier cited the military intelligence service as saying that a Turkish activist directed the attacks from his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Interior and defense ministers from 13 European countries have agreed to come up with new measures to ensure that the overland route from Greece remains shut for migrants seeking new lives in other EU nations.

Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka and Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil say the officials decided to draw up a plan by April for the so-called West Balkans route.

VIENNA - The building where Adolf Hitler was born may be spared demolition, but emerge heavily disguised.

On Monday, Austria's interior minister, Wolfgang Sobotka, told the daily Die Presse that "the Hitler house will be torn down."

BELGRADE - After years of bitter legal wrangling, the Austrian government announced plans Monday to demolish the house where Adolf Hitler was born and replace it with a new building in efforts to erase any link to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.