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Two years on, fallout mounts from Austria s Ibiza-gate

Austria’s former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache goes on trial Tuesday over graft charges linked to the giant “Ibiza-gate” scandal, which is still roiling national politics two years after it broke. – What happened in Ibiza? – The scandals can be traced back to a meeting in 2017 on the Spanish resort island of Ibiza between Strache, then leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), and a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch. Strache was filmed promising the woman state contracts in exchange for helping his party to campaign for elections on an anti-migration, anti-Islam plank. Strache also discussed the possibility of the woman buying Austria’s most-read tabloid, Kronen Zeitung, and making its editorial line more pro-FPOe.

Home to Freud, Austria Debates Carbon-Tax Therapy to Ease Climate Anxiety

Article content (Bloomberg) When temperatures soar and Austrians start to get a little stir crazy, they dream of Alpine hills where scientists and philosophers like Sigmund Freud retreated to refresh mind and body. These days, ever-hotter summers are turning that discomfort into full-blown anxiety over climate change. The record heatwaves ravaging large parts of the Northern Hemisphere are just the latest trigger. Average temperatures in Austria have surged almost 2 degrees Celsius over the last century, prompting many to ask if their country a middling polluter that already has some of the most ambitious climate targets needs to take more drastic action.  

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