In 2013, Austria's economy grew by just 0.4 percent, the slowest growth rate since the recession of 2008-09 when overall production had shrunk by 3.8 percent. Both the investment volume and private household consumption declined in real terms. Unemployment rose sharply to a new height of 7.6...

In the summer of 2007, prices for grain and milk shot up both on the world market and within the EU's single market. The price hike surpassed those observed in 2001. Consequently, prices for food rose as well; their share in the general price increase was greater than in past years. These...

Austria's GDP grew by just 0.3 percent in 2014, making for a sluggish economy for the third year in a row. Causes for the sluggishness were not just continued investment reticence on the part of businesses and muted expenditure on the part of private households but also the lack of any strong...

Als Reaktion auf die ökonomischen Verwerfungen durch die COVID-19-Pandemie hat die Bundesregierung in ihrer Regierungsklausur Mitte Juni 2020 zusätzlich zu bereits zuvor beschlossenen Hilfsmaßnahmen weitere Unterstützungen für die kommenden Jahre vorgeschlagen. Die in Zusammenarbeit von...