Tag: Austria

News / World - 7 years ago

The 'von' trap: Austrian battle over three noble letters

It is a furious battle over three small letters that Austria’s most famous musical family would surely approve of. A Swiss vet is taking the Austrian state to task over its ban of the use of the aristocratic prefix “von” (meaning “of”), which was ou...

News / World - 7 years ago

Italy and France trade insults as migration row boils over

France and Italy traded insults, rifts widened in Germany’s ruling coalition and Austria called for an “axis of the willing” to take action as a simmering row over how Europe should handle irregular migration finally boiled over. Angrily rejecting F...