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DSN Uncovers Hamas Weapons Cache in Vienna
The Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has dealt a significant blow to a global terrorist organization with ties to Hamas as part of internationally coordinated investigations: a weapons cache was uncovered in Vienna. There is a strong suspicion that the weapons were intended for use in planned terrorist attacks in Europe against Israeli or Jewish institutions.
November 7, 2025
Change in Leadership at DSN: Omar Haijawi-Pirchner Steps Down Early
The Directorate for State Protection and Intelligence (DSN), Austria's leading constitutional protection authority, is facing a significant change in leadership. As the DSN announced in a press release, Director Omar Haijawi-Pirchner will step down from his position at the end of 2025 at his own request. The decision comes eleven months before the end of his term of office and is justified on “personal grounds.”
September 21, 2025
Danger in the Digital Space: DSN Warns Against the Use of AI by Extremists
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by extremist groups poses a growing threat to internal security. The Austrian Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has issued a warning regarding this development. Modern AI systems could be used specifically to radicalize individuals with personalized propaganda.
August 19, 2025 · Updated: August 25, 2025; 11:06
Russian Espionage Affair in Austria: A Targeted Disinformation Campaign in the Heart of Europe
Austria is once again at the center of an espionage scandal: The Directorate for State Security and Intelligence (DSN) has uncovered an extensive Russian disinformation campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion in favor of Russia and to the detriment of Ukraine.
March 24, 2025
Austria Suspends Family Reunification for Asylum Seekers: Interior Minister Karner Informs the EU
The Austrian federal government is temporarily suspending family reunification for asylum seekers. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) presented the plan at a meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels and submitted a corresponding letter to the European Commission. The measure, which was laid down in the government agreement between the ÖVP, SPÖ, and NEOS, is causing heated debate.
March 5, 2025
A New Chapter for Austria: The Faces of the Federal Government 2025
The inauguration of the new federal government marks the beginning of a new era in Austrian politics. For the first time, a three-party coalition of the ÖVP, SPÖ, and NEOS, led by Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker (ÖVP), is in power. He is joined by Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler (SPÖ) and Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger (NEOS). The new government has 21 members in total. But who are the people who will steer the country's destiny in the coming years?
March 3, 2025
Christoph Leitl Re-elected President of the European Movement Austria
Christoph Leitl has been re-elected President of the European Movement Austria (EBÖ). With a view to the upcoming European elections on 9 June and the forthcoming appointment of the new EU Commission in the autumn, Leitl emphasizes the importance of the EU as a peace project and the need to find European answers to current issues.
March 25, 2024
Austria's Government Under New Challenge: Are New Elections Coming?
With his statements, Thomas Schmid, ex-Secretary General at the Ministry of Finance, has incriminated many former and current top politicians of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), some of them heavily. Although much was already relatively well known in the investigations by the Public Prosecutor's Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKSta) triggered by the Ibiza affair, Schmid has provided a great deal of new material in the cases surrounding appointments to posts, tax and advertising deals in the Austrian government. In Austrian politics, a new crisis is now brewing for the ÖVP-Green coalition government.
October 20, 2022
Covid-19 in Austria: 3-G Rule at Work as of Nov. 1 - In-Company Tests Remain Free of Charge
Both employers and employees in Austria will only be allowed to enter their workplace after Nov. 1, 2021, if they have been vaccinated, have recovered in the past six months or have recently been tested.
October 20, 2021 · Updated: October 21, 2021; 07:10
Criticism of the Lack of Foreign and European Policy Reports
The opposition, represented by Andreas Schieder (SPÖ), criticises the fact that for the last three years the Foreign Ministers Kurz and Kneissel have not submitted any annual Foreign and European Policy Reports for the purpose of reporting on fundamental foreign policy issues.
June 3, 2019
Setback for the UN - Austria Won't Sign Global Migration Pact
Austria will follow the US and Hungary in backing out of a United Nations pact on migration (Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration) over concerns that it will blur the line between illegal and legal migration.
October 31, 2018
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