Tag: VdB
VdB with improvisation – glitch at Haslauer’s swearing-in
President Van der Bellen had to improvise on Haslauer’s third oath of office. The Chancellor was not present this time. Unlike five years ago, when Governor Wilfried Haslauer was accompanied…
A wafer-thin majority – Styria result: VdB just over 50 percent
Alexander Van der Bellen remains Federal President. According to the first projections, it comes to around 56 percent. The Styria results were not quite as good for the incumbent. All…
VdB also mediated – “Pusterer Buam”: Rome pardons South Tyrol attackers
On Thursday, Italian President Sergio Mattarella pardoned former South Tyrolean assassin Heinrich Oberleiter, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Italy. The 80-year-old’s three children turned to Mattarella in 2018…