Sources: BBC
Austria expels three Russian diplomats over suspected espionage activities involving data interception from the Russian embassy and a diplomatic mission in Vienna. 2026-05-4
Five people are killed, another is injured and power outages are reported during a major snowstorm in Linz and Tyrol, Austria. 2026-02-20
Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sells for US$236.4 million ({{Euro}}203.2 million) at a Sotheby's auction in New York City, breaking the record for the most expensive modern art piece. 2025-11-18
A 14-year-old boy is killed and five other people are injured in a mass stabbing on a street in Villach, Carinthia, Austria. A 23-year-old man, an Islamic State member, is arrested. 2025-02-15
Austria's largest privately owned real estate company Signa Holding files for insolvency. 2023-11-29
Diplomats from the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran gather in Vienna, Austria to seek a deal to revive the 2015 Iran deal. 2022-02-28
The Robert Koch Institute removes dozens of countries, including the United States, Canada, Austria, and Lebanon, from its travel risk list due to low COVID-19 infection rates. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas later announces that most of the countries still on the list will be removed on July 1. 2021-06-11
Germany will close its border with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol region beginning on the evening of February 14 because of a high risk of variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-11
Germany closes its borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg. 2020-03-15
Greece recalls its ambassador to Austria in response to Austria's hosting of a meeting with Balkan states, to which Greece was not invited, about European migrant crisis policies that would make it harder for migrants to head north across Europe. Greece's foreign ministry called the move an "unfriendly act." More than 100,000 migrants have entered the EU illegally so far in 2016, nearly all of them arriving in Greece. 2016-02-25