On March 17th at 12 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Rebekka Salzer presents the ORF parliamentary magazine “Hohes Haus” on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at 12 p.m. on ORF 2 with the following topics:
First round of U-committees
The super election year 2024 has set its first scent with the local council elections in Salzburg. The EU parliamentary elections will take place in three months and the National Council elections in six months. The parties’ election campaign machines are running. And the parties are currently hoping for election campaign ammunition from the two U-committees. The first round of investigative committees that were launched in parallel, the COFAG investigative committee set up by the FPÖ and SPÖ and the committee on red-blue abuse of power set up by the ÖVP, revealed a lot of familiar things, but also some surprising things. Fritz Jungmayr reports.
There is also a studio confrontation between the two committee faction leaders Andreas Hanger, ÖVP, and Christian Hafenecker, FPÖ
No exception for mini shops
NEOS and FPÖ see an acute need for reform in the opening hours law. According to a decision by the Constitutional Court, no exceptions apply to self-service shops. Although there are no employees on site here – similar to vending machines – the same opening hours apply to such food boxes as to supermarkets. In the last economic committee, the opposition’s motions for a legal exemption for such mini-shops were postponed by the government parties. The turquoise Ministry of Economic Affairs does not currently seem to have an exception for new, innovative supply concepts in rural areas on its radar. Susanne Däubel looked at such self-service boxes in Austria.