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Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing: viennabriefing.substack.com. Website: liamhoare.com. You can reach me at: contact@liamhoare.com

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David @landrin.bsky.social · 1h
30. September vs. 01. Oktober
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 2h
Retirement with grace was also an option.
theguardian.com
Cristiano Ronaldo walks out on Portugal after being dropped from starting lineup
With Jorge Jesus, the Portugal coach, saying Cristiano Ronaldo would again be a substitute against Denmark, the 41-year-old has left the team’s training camp
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 2h
Barbara Glück has been reappointed director of the Mauthausen Memorial for another five years.
ots.at
KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen: Wiederbestellung der Geschäftsführung
Innenminister spricht der Direktorin Dank für Engagement und Einsatz aus – Gedenkstätte entwickelt sich kontinuierlich weiter
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 2h
I find it very hard to believe, considering he's currently undergoing treatment for cancer and already announced his intention to leave his current post at the end of this parliament, that Markus Marterbauer would want to take over the SPÖ.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
Out today @haaretzcom.bsky.social: A new biopic explores the tumultuous early life of Bruno Kreisky—formative years during which he was persecuted and imprisoned under not one but two regimes and Austria fell into civil war and dictatorship.
haaretz.com
Austria's only Jewish chancellor: A socialist revolutionary, but no hero
New biopic 'Bruno: The Young Kreisky' ventures into an era Austrians once 'didn't dare' put on screen, tracing the tumultuous youth and rise to power that made Kreisky's story an enduring lesson in de...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 21h
Sometimes the topics for The Vienna Briefing just fall into my lap, and this week, I have Gerhard Zeiler to thank. (€) viennabriefing.substack.com/p/the-crowns...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 21h
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The Vienna Briefing | Liam Hoare | Substack
Your weekly newsletter from Vienna on current affairs in Austria provided by Liam Hoare. Click to read The Vienna Briefing, by Liam Hoare, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
The death penalty is pure barbarism.
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
Mehr auszugeben, als man muss, ist keine Tugendübung.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
I understand nudge theory, but what am I being nudged to do here? In the case of your toothpaste example, I don't, but let's say I did buy it from Amazon normally. What would I do instead? Buy it from Bipa or dm, which are also foreign-owned multinational companies. 🤷‍♂️
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
I believe it was designed to offset the cost of lowering VAT on essential food items.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
I’m sure Amazon won’t be the only business to pass on the cost of Austria’s new parcel tax to consumers. This tax was a lousy back-of-a-fag-packet idea for which the coalition will lose a supporter every time they have to pay it.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 4h
Well, it looks like Amazon is going to pass on the cost of Austria’s new parcel tax to consumers. Surprise, surprise.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 16h
Zeiler’s change would be a funny sort of change, for there is as near makes no difference between his concept of a plan and the SPÖ’s current party platform, which is focused on bringing down inflation via price intervention, regulating rents, and reforming the public healthcare system.
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 16h
Zeiler’s path to power is not blocked, but it is narrow. Babler has no intention of resigning. It is unlikely Zeiler could muster the support of 10 percent of SPÖ party members. To force a fight with Babler, he’ll need the support of the states to stage an extraordinary party congress.
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 16h
The polling shows that Andreas Babler isn’t working for the Social Democratic Party. But in recent days, Gerhard Zeiler has come across as disconnected from the party he wishes to lead and out of touch with the country he wants to govern.
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Paul Reisenauer @paulreisenauer.bsky.social · 16h
Tja
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16h
EXCLUSIVE: The EU will open its vast economy to countries waiting to join its ranks, provided they agree to stand with the bloc against hostile states and industrial rivals. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 17h
Find someone to love you like Paul Marshall loves burning cash on GB News pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
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Colette Schmidt @colettemschmidt.bsky.social · 21h
"Dass gerade Boulevardmedien Babler durch die Gegend watschen wie keinen anderen, können daher nur sehr naive Leute für Zufall halten. Dass seine Umfragewerte bei einer derartigen Kampagne in den Keller rasseln, ist kein Wunder. Woher beziehen denn die meisten Befragten ihre Informationen? Eben."
derstandard.at
ÖVP ließ Bablers Medienpaket platzen: Hat der Boulevard gewonnen?
Die neuerliche orchestrierte Obmanndebatte in der SPÖ schadet den Roten – und dem Qualitätsjournalismus
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 21h
Only paid subscribers receive full access to The Vienna Briefing, meaning every edition of the newsletter as well as its archive and community features. Stay in the loop about all things Austrian by signing up today.
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The Vienna Briefing | Liam Hoare | Substack
Your weekly newsletter from Vienna on current affairs in Austria provided by Liam Hoare. Click to read The Vienna Briefing, by Liam Hoare, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 21h
Sometimes the topics for The Vienna Briefing just fall into my lap, and this week, I have Gerhard Zeiler to thank. (€) viennabriefing.substack.com/p/the-crowns...
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As part of the "Zionism is Racism" motion which the Green party will be voting on at conference, there is a specific section which says that members of the Green Party who are members of 'Zionist Synagogues' should be kicked out. Efforts to amend this language were rejected at a "party workshop".
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What is a "Zionist synagogue"? There are two possible meanings. 1) Any Synagogue affiliated to a denomination which in some way has expressed support for Israel's existence. Which is most of them. 2) Any Synagogue which has prayers which can be interpreted as "Zionist". Which is ALL of them.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
To add to my bearishness: I do not believe whatever process Andy Burnham starts will end with Britain rejoining the European Union before the end of parliament's next term.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
UPDATE: "An Israeli official told Haaretz that authorities are treating the flight as a terror incident and are seriously considering the possibility that it was an attempt to crash the plane."
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
I don't know the proportions, but the model is some combination of direct subsidy, indirect subsidy via government advertising, and private advertising and advertorials.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
It's hard to call what Austrian newspapers have a business model.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
Andreas Babler will meet with state party bosses on Sunday in order to discuss what to do about Gerhard Zeiler's candidature for the party leadership.
kurier.at
SPÖ-Machtkampf: Babler lädt die Länderparteichefs nach Wien
Er reagiert damit auf die Forderung aus Kärnten nach einer Klärung der Lage. Das Treffen findet am Sonntag statt.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
The ÖVP is continuing to push for a delivery subsidy for free newspapers, even though their coalition partners oppose it and these newspapers, while distributed, are not delivered to people's homes.
derstandard.at
Medienpaket geplatzt – Zehetner alleine bei Pressefoyer zum Ministerrat
Die ÖVP soll weiterhin auf einer Zustellförderung für Gratistageszeitungen bestehen
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
The "Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS" story that's doing the rounds on social media seems more like wish fulfilment than anything else.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
"Israeli officials said the signal was issued after a physical altercation between the plane's pilots. Initial reports suggested that the plane had issued a hijacking signal. According to Israeli defense officials, the plane was not hijacked."
haaretz.com
Dubai-Tel Aviv flight lands in Saudi Arabia after issuing distress signal
Israeli officials said the pilots issued the signal after a physical altercation. Passengers broke into the cockpit and intervened, a witness told Haaretz
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
Don't forget to get your flu vaccine, folks.
svs.at
Grippe- und Pneumokokkenimpfung
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
Out today @haaretzcom.bsky.social: A new biopic explores the tumultuous early life of Bruno Kreisky—formative years during which he was persecuted and imprisoned under not one but two regimes and Austria fell into civil war and dictatorship.
haaretz.com
Austria's only Jewish chancellor: A socialist revolutionary, but no hero
New biopic 'Bruno: The Young Kreisky' ventures into an era Austrians once 'didn't dare' put on screen, tracing the tumultuous youth and rise to power that made Kreisky's story an enduring lesson in de...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
I was quite persuaded by something Ivan Krastev said the other night that the future of the EU will be a combination of integration and disintegration, with groups of member states pursuing closer integration on specific issues like defence or capital markets without the support of the entire bloc.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
I confess I'm bearish on the European Union right now, but I just don't see what this 'closest imaginable form of association' could be when we can't even get 10 of the existing 27 member states to pass CETA.
rapporteur.com
Canada keeps ‘associate membership’ label at arm’s length | Rapporteur
'We're really much more focused on getting concrete results,' said the Canadian EU-envoy
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Georg Eckelsberger @georgeckelsberger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Medienmanager Zeiler kann zum Thema Medienförderung nichts sagen, weil er „kein Experte in diesem Bereich ist“.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2026
In Marine Le Pen’s political world, family has a habit of finding its way back to the center of power. That could now matter more than ever for her party president, Jordan Bardella.
politico.eu
Family first: Le Pen clan tightens its grip as Bardella hits trouble
France’s far-right leader is surrounding herself with family and longtime loyalists as her party president faces a damaging new controversy.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 30/09/2026
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
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The Crown’s Prince
Warner Bros. Discovery International president Gerhard Zeiler announced his intention to challenge Andreas Babler for the Social Democratic Party leadership last week
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday filed a libel suit against Haaretz and other media outlets and journalists over Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval's report that he received a warning before the October 7 Hamas attack."
haaretz.com
Netanyahu files libel suit against Haaretz over exposé on warning before Oct. 7
Netanyahu is suing Haaretz and other media outlets and journalists following a Haaretz report earlier this month said that the Emirati leader warned Netanyahu about a looming attack by Hamas just ahea...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Manchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breaches
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Manchester City found guilty on all Premier League charges over rule breaches
* ‘Sham’ contracts helped inflate revenues by £900m * Commission finds club guilty over nine-season period Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, the league has announced. The league also said an independent commission had found City guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to cooperate with the league’s investigation. Continue reading...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
Barbara Staudinger is to continue as director of the Jewish Museum Vienna. "With great professional expertise, curiosity, and a keen ear for societal debates, she has succeeded in offering new perspectives on Jewish history and connecting it to the present," said Veronica Kaup-Hasler.
ots.at
Barbara Staudinger als Geschäftsführerin des Jüdischen Museums Wien wiederbestellt
Wien (OTS) - Dr.in Barbara Staudinger bleibt Geschäftsführerin des Jüdischen Museums Wien, ein Museum der Wien Holding. Nach Abschluss des Auswahlverfahrens fiel die Entscheidung einstimmig auf die bi...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
If anyone in Austria has the right to feel betrayed by Israel opening the door to the Freedom Party, it is the People's Party, which over the past decade has pushed Austrian foreign policy in a markedly pro-Israel direction. The Jewish Community of Vienna might also feel aggrieved.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
Herbert Kickl's push to move the Freedom Party closer to Israel also carries risks. The far right as a whole is far from united on the issue. And, the party may start to look to its current supporters like everybody else – part of the very system it claims to despise and seeks to overturn.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 29/09/2026
Adopting what could be called consensus positions on Israel and antisemitism could bring the Freedom Party domestic benefits. An endorsement from Israel can serve far-right parties in Europe as a Persilschein, a denazification certificate, to ward off accusations of antisemitism.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amid threats of an unlawful police raid of Srebrenica Memorial Center, the leadership has reduced the number of staff on site, to protect their physical safety. 2 wks ago, the whole of Europe condemned Serbia for its leaders' glorification of Mladic. Where are they today? n1info.ba/vijesti/sulj...
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Suljagić donio odluku: Memorijalni centar Srebrenica povlači dio zaposlenih, moguće i privremeno zatvaranje za posjete
Direktor Memorijalnog centra Srebrenica dr. Emir Suljagić donio je odluku da se tokom ove sedmice broj zaposlenih koji fizički borave u Centru svede na osoblje
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com · 28/09/2026
Today @haaretzcom.bsky.social, you can read my analysis of Israel opening the door to the far-right Freedom Party, a move that appears a gift for the FPÖ, though I think it also comes with hidden risks.
haaretz.com
Analysis • Israel's embrace is a gift to Austria's far right, but comes with hidden risks
Israel's government is helping Austria's Freedom Party ward off accusations of antisemitism, but in the eyes of its own supporters, the embrace could make the party look like part of the system it cla...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
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Five men arrested at RAF Fairford are all UK nationals from London, say police
Officers say they have secured extension to continue to hold men, all in their 20s, on suspicion of terror offences Five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences at RAF Fairford are all British nationals in their 20s from London, counter-terrorism police have said. The men were pictured on Sunday being apprehended, shirtless, near the RAF base in Gloucestershire, which is being used by the US air force in its operations against Iran. Continue reading...
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