Tag: Vienna
Macedonia 03.01.22 | 18:36

Foreign Minister Osmani tries to push more changes to the law through Parliament as he attempts to handpick the team of diplomats in OSCE

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani is pushing a new set of changes to the law on diplomats, all as part of his attempt to create an outsized mission in Vienna ahead of the Macedonian Presidency with OSCE in 2023. Osmani’s initial proposal was to introduce a completely arbitrary condition for sending...
Macedonia 15.04.21 | 23:29

Austrian Minister Edstadler offers Vienna as “neutral site” for talks between Macedonia and Bulgaria

Austrian Minister for Europe Karoline Edtstadler offered Vienna as a place for talks between Macedonia and Bulgaria, as two countries remain locked in a historical dispute over which Bulgaria blocks Macedonia’s EU accession talks. Edtstadler met with her Macedonian counterpart Nikola Dimitrov and...
Macedonia 10.04.21 | 22:24

Austrian boy with origin from Macedonia arrested after threatening to attack the Vienna cathedral

Vienna police arrested a15 year old who originates from Macedonia, after he was threatening to attack civilians at the Stephansdom cathedral. The boy was enraged while attempting to chat online with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and made the threat. Police are investigating how serious the risk...
World 11.11.20 | 17:27

Austrian police still looking for Fejzullai’s accomplices

Austrian police is still determining if the Islamist Kujtim Fejzullai had an accomplice, mainly a driver, who helped him get to the center of Vienna for the attack he carried out last Monday. Fejzullai (20), an ethnic Albanian whose family originates from Macedonia, killed four people and injured over...
Macedonia 04.11.20 | 12:21

Vienna Islamist would visit his native village in Macedonia each year

Kujtim Fejzullai, the Islamist who carried out the terror attack in Vienna on Monday evening, would visit Macedonia each year, his family members say. Fejzullai was born in Austria, but his parents are ethnic Albanians who come from the village of Chelopek, near Tetovo. He would come here each year with...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 18:51

President Pendarovski condemns Vienna attack in phone call with Austrian counterpart

Macedonia’s President Stevo Pendarovski talked on the phone on Tuesday with Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen and strongly condemned Monday’s terror attack in Vienna, expressing regret over the lives lost in this violent act, his Office said in a press release. Pendarovski extended...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 14:02

One of the victims in Vienna is an ethnic Albanian from Macedonia

Austrian media outlets are reporting that one of the victims in the Islamist attacks on Monday evening is Nexhip Vranezi, an ethnic Albanian from the village of Velesta near Struga in Macedonia. Vranezi (20) was shot dead while he was on a cigarette break. One of the at least five attackers was also...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 12:27

The family of the Vienna Islamist is from Chelopek near Tetovo

Macedonian police sources briefed the press that the family of Kujtim Fejzullai, one of the Islamists who carried out the Vienna killings on Monday evening, is from the village of Chelopek, near Tetovo. The family moved out to Austria and Kujtim was born there in 2000. Austrian police has contacted the...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 11:16

Austria confirms that the killed Islamist is an ethnic Albanian, dual Macedonian – Austrian citizen Kujtim Fetullahi

Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer confirmed that the Islamist who was killed yesterday by the police after participating in the major terror attacks in Vienna was a 20 year old dual Macedonian – Austrian citizen named Kujtim Fetullahi. Earlier media reports identified this attacker as Kurtin...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 11:04

Mickoski expresses condolences to Kurz

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski strongly condemned the Islamist attack in Vienna on Monday evening. In a message to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Mickoski said that the thoughts and prayers are with the people of Vienna. Please accept my deepest condolences for the events in Vienna. This...
Macedonia 03.11.20 | 09:49

Islamist killed in Vienna was an ethnic Albanian from Tetovo, Macedonia

One of the Islamists that carried out yesterday’s attacks in Vienna was an ethnic Albanian originally from Tetovo, Macedonia, Austrian media outlets are reporting. One attacker was killed and four captured after murdering at least five civilians and wounding more than a dozen, while shooting with...
World 03.11.20 | 08:47

At least five killed in Islamist attacks in Vienna

At least five people were killed in the terrorist attacks in Vienna yesterday, in which suspected Islamists shot at citizens walking down the street, or in restaurants, and targeted the city’s Jewish community. Officers shot dead one attacker as he was preparing to use an explosive device strapped...
World 02.11.20 | 22:31

Several people injured in terror attack in Vienna

Several people including at least one police officer have been seriously injured in central Vienna in what Austria’s interior minister described as a terror attack, Guardian reported. One attacker was arrested and another shot dead in the attack on Monday night, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported. “At...
World 20.11.19 | 16:36

V4: Soros declares war from Vienna

The speeches at the opening of the Central European University’s (CEU) campus in Vienna belonged more to a political campaign launch than the official opening ceremony of a scientific institution. CEU founder George Soros launched the ‘Open Society University Network’ initiative in...
Macedonia 17.10.19 | 11:15

Zaev says Poland and Hungary have problem with rule of law, internal problems

In his address in Vienna, talking about the European perspective in the region and why Macedonia should get a date for negotiations, Prime Minister Zaev emphasized that EU member states have similar problems as ours. According to Zaev, Poland and Hungary have problems with the rule of law and internal...
Macedonia 16.10.19 | 18:52

What changed? Within hours Zaev changed his position on whether he will resign

During his press conference in Vienna, before the left for Brussels, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev threatened that his Government will be dead by Wednesday unless he returns with a date to open the EU accession talks. Only hours later, in Brussels, Zaev was far more evasive and stopped short of definitely...
World 07.08.19 | 11:14

Austrian court sentences Afghan who planned to bomb the main Vienna railway station

On Tuesday, an Austrian court sentenced the 27-year-old Afghan migrant to fourteen months in prison for making preparations to carry out a suicide attack at Vienna’s main railway station in 2015, the V4 news agency reported. The 27-year-old Afghan got off with a relatively light sentence because...
World 26.07.19 | 11:45

Iranian immigrant threatens to set himself on fire in Vienna

A 32 year old Iranian threatened to set himself on fire in front of an immigrant hostel in Vienna yesterday, V4 reported. The migrant had become angry after he allegedly did not receive his allowance, the news website of the Austrian Kronen Zeitung reported on Thursday. The 32-year-old man was pouring...
World 28.12.18 | 15:06

5 monks assaulted at Vienna church

Five monks were assaulted at a Vienna church on Thursday by two people, at least one of whom apparently demanded money and valuables, police said. Police said the assault happened at about 1:30 p.m. at a complex in the city’s Floridsdorf district. No church service was underway when the assailants...

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