2018 in Austria

Incumbents

• President: Alexander Van der Bellen
• Chancellor: Sebastian Kurz

  Events

February

• 2-3 February — Cyclone Burglind
• 12 February — Niklasdorf train collision

  May

• May 28 - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces to cut benefit for foreigners at 564 euros.he says “The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become the key to accessing the full minimum benefit,” “That means that whoever has insufficient language skills will not be able to claim the full minimum benefit".

  June

• June 8 - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces its closing seven mosques and could expel up to 40 imams from the country. the mosques were accused of preaching Salafi positions and they were funded by turkey.

  Deaths

• 1 January – Konrad Ragossnig, classical guitarist.
• 13 January – Walter Schuster, alpine skier
• 19 January – Ute Bock, educator and humanitarian.
• 26 February – Thomas Pernes, composer
• 3 March – Franz Pacher, engineer
• 21 March – Martha Wallner, actress
• 20 July – Heinz Schilcher, footballer.
• 24 October – Rudolf Gelbard, Holocaust survivor