On July 2nd at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON; Guest in the studio: Christoph Neumayer, Secretary General of the Industrial Association
Vienna (OTS) – Susanne Schnabl will present the “Report” on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON with the following topics:
Economy in focus
When it comes to dealing with money, Austria’s 15-year-olds perform above average, according to the PISA study on financial literacy, in which Austria took part for the first time. The Minister of Education still sees a need for improvement. The temptation to buy online in installments or take on debt, as well as peer and brand pressure on social media, are tempting young people to spend more money. This is also shown by the increasing youth debt. While knowledge of German, languages and mathematics is constantly being asked, economic knowledge still has a shadowy existence. The Economic Education Foundation, supported by the Chamber of Labor and the Association of Industrialists, among others, has started a pilot project in 60 Austrian schools to give children more economic and financial skills. Sabina Riedl and Alexander Sattmann report.
The Secretary General of the Industrial Association, Christoph Neumayer, is a guest in the studio about this and the economic situation.
The consequences of Gewessler’s coup
Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler’s approval of the EU renaturation regulation triggers further discussions about legal issues. It is controversial, for example, whether the originally uniform statement from the state governors was really legally binding for the minister. On the one hand, the state governors’ conference is actually just an informal meeting and not legally required at all, and on the other hand, the decision was made on an old draft of the EU regulation. The axis of the powerful state governors, without whom a government can hardly implement anything in everyday political life, has now had a crack, which is also why the anger towards the Green minister is great. Laura Franz and Helga Lazar asked how decision-making could be better regulated.
The small
There will be an election in three months, on September 29th, but for many small parties the coming weeks are already crucial. Because from July 9th they have to collect 2,600 signatures across Austria in order to even get on the ballot. And around ten of these smaller parties now want to know. In addition to the more well-known ones, such as the KPÖ, the Beer Party or the MFG, which is represented in the Upper Austrian state parliament, there are even less well-known ones: the Petrovic list, for example, or the “Der Wandel” party. Yilmaz Gülüm and Stefan Daubrawa visited some of these parties during the pre-election campaign.