AUSTRIA’S COMMERCIAL CRIME EXPOSURE RISES WITH EASTERN EUROPE FRONTIER CONTROLS FALLING
November 1st, 2007
BY DAVID HAWORTH, in Vienna
AUSTRIA boasts a relatively low commercial crime rate. However its position as one of Europe's crossroads is threatening this good reputation. Today it's geographically and politically wedged between some older and some more recent European Union (EU) member countries. Like the symbolic Hapsburg eagle, David Haworth writes, it glares both ways.
THE IMMINENT extension of the Schengen agreement removing border controls between EU countries before Christmas has unsettled Austrian public opinion, which is ambivalent about the ...
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