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Peter Ranisch im Gespräch mit Ronke Babjide über KI und ihren Einfluß auf unsere Gesellschaft

Bor wurde früher als universelles Mittel gegen Insekten und Pilze eingesetzt. Später führten Studien zu Verboten. Heutige Produkte unterliegen der Biozidprodukteverordnung. In den 1970er Jahren verursachten Wirkstoffe wie Pentachlorphenol in Produkten wie Xylamon sowie DDT und Lindan Probleme. Wässrige Systeme haben lösemittelhaltige Produkte weitgehend verdrängt.

Bei der Sanierung aktiver Befälle im Dachstuhl werden gezielte Applikationen eingesetzt. Die Bohrlochimprägnierung dringt tief in den Querschnitt von Balken ein. Streichen oder Sprühen sichert die Oberfläche. Frühere Hausmittel wie Altöl oder Birkenteer werden nicht mehr verwendet.

Das Holzschutzmittelverzeichnis finden Sie auf der Website der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Holzschutzmittel.

Direkter download des Holzschutzmittelverzeichnisses.

Link zur Episode über den hölzernen Gartenzaun.

Link zu Holzforschung Austria.

Hakan Gürses und Margit Reiter über Umbrüche und Aufbrüche

Anlässlich des Jubiläums 35 Jahre Initiative Minderheiten und ihrer Zeitschrift STIMME reflektierten Akteur:innen die Gründungszeit und welche politischen Entwicklungen die Bildung von minoritären Allianzen Anfang der 1990er Jahre notwendig gemacht haben.

Aus der Veranstaltung, die am 16. Juni im Haus der Geschichte Österreich stattgefunden hat, sind die Key Note Vorträge von Hakan Gürses und Monika Reiter zu hören.

Am Beginn hören wir einleitende Worte von Stefan Benedik, hdgö und Cornelia Kogoj, Initiative Minderheiten.

Sendungsgestaltung: Stefan Resch

Foto: asylkoordination österreich

Am 3. Juli öffnete das Schloss Röthelstein feierlich nach 2 Jahren wieder seine Türen. Und dies mit einem neuen JUFA-Konzept, welches sowohl Touristen, als auch Einheimische ansprechen soll. Das Schloss soll als exklusive Event- und Hochzeitslocation dienen und ist auch für externe Gäste für Frühstück, sowie für Snacks, Kaffee und Kuchen zu besuchen. Besondere Highlights sind außerdem die Rauchkuchel, die Schlosskapelle oder der historische Rittersaal. Zur Pressekonferenz am vergangenen Freitag lud Martin Seger-Omann und Gerhard Wendl, Vorstand/ der JUFA Hotels.

Kaffee-, Leder- oder Palmölproduktion dort, wo vor Kurzem noch wertvolle Naturwälder wuchsen: Genau das sollte die EU-Entwaldungsverordnung verhindern. Unternehmen sollten nachweisen, dass ihre Produkte nicht mit Abholzung in Verbindung stehen. Ein wichtiger Schritt für Klima und Biodiversität, denn Wälder speichern CO2 und sind Lebensraum für einen Großteil aller Arten weltweit. Doch einige Akteure, insbesondere aus Österreich, laufen Sturm gegen das Gesetz: ÖVP sowie Vertreter:innen der Forst- und Wirtschaftslobbys warnen vor Bürokratie und Wettbewerbsnachteilen. Seit der Verabschiedung 2023 wurde das Gesetz mehrfach verschoben und abgeschwächt.

Dahinter steht ein größerer Trend: Unter dem Schlagwort „Simplification“ setzt die EU derzeit in vielen Bereichen auf Deregulierung. Umwelt-, Sozial- und Verbraucherschutzstandards sollen abgebaut werden, um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu stärken und Bürokratie zu reduzieren. Doch auch der Widerstand dagegen wächst: Die österreichische Plattform „Kettensäge stoppen!“ kämpft EU-weit mit ihren Partnerorganisationen gegen die Deregulierungspolitik der EU.

In der Sendung spricht ihre Koordinatorin Magdalena Pitzer über den Einfluss großer Konzerne auf die aktuelle EU-Politik und was dies für Umwelt, Klima und soziale Standards bedeutet. Dabei ist die Entwaldungsverordnung ein Paradebeispiel für Deregulierung. Nicolas Roux, Experte für internationale Lieferketten an der BOKU, erklärt, warum gerade Österreich sich als großer Rundholzimporteur bei dem Gesetz querlegte. Außerdem zu Wort kommen die EU-Abgeordneten Thomas Waitz (Grüne) und Reinhold Lopatka (ÖVP) sowie der Ökonom Werner Raza.

Interviews mit:

Ebenfalls zu Wort kommen:

Die Initator:innen der Plattform „Kettensäge stoppen!“ sind:

Die Signation von OpenUp ist unter CC-Lizenz folgendem Titel entnommen: „Coolman“ aus dem Album „Kogani“ der Formation Suerte.

Sendungsgestaltung: Ines Stiermeier

Von Gutenbergs Buchdruck über die ersten Zeitungen bis hin zum Radio: Medien haben die Art verändert, wie Menschen Informationen erhalten, Wissen verbreiten und die Welt wahrnehmen. In dieser Sendung reisen wir zurück zu den Anfängen der Medienwelt und entdecken, wie Bücher, Zeitungen und Radio unsere Gesellschaft geprägt haben. Außerdem geht es darum, warum Medien schon damals so mächtig waren und wie sich Informationen früher verbreitet haben.

Wenige Monate vor der Landtageswahl haben sich Gewerkschaften, Studierendenvertretungen und wissenschaftliche Initiativen aus Sachsen-Anhalt in einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme gegen die hochschulpolitischen Vorstellungen der AfD positioniert. Die Unterzeichnenden sehen in den Plänen der Partei eine Gefahr für demokratische Mitbestimmung, Wissenschaftsfreiheit und Chancengleichheit an den Hochschulen des Landes. Darunter sind die GEW Sachsen-Anhalt, Studierendenräte und Promovierendenvertretungen verschiedener Hochschulen. Als besonders besorgniserregend sehen diese zum Beispiel die Pläne der AfD, die Mitbestimmungsrechte von Studierenden und Beschäftigten einzuschränken. Auch soll die Gleichstellungsarbeit an Hochschulen geschwächt werden. Über all diese problematischen Inhalte, und was das Bündnis mit dieser Stellungnahme bezwecken möchte, darüber sprachen wir mit Elias Zarrad. Er ist Co-Vorsitzender des Studierendenrat Halles.

Queeres Leben ist auch am Land präsent, bleibt jedoch oft unsichtbar. Wer nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm entspricht fühlt sich im Ort oft beobachtet, allein oder hat Angst vor Ablehnung. Deshalb ist Sichtbarkeit am Land so wichtig. Initiativen wie die Heublumen im Pinzgau schaffen mit Pride-Paraden, einem queeren Volksfest sowie regelmäßigen Treffen wichtige Orte der Sichtbarkeit, Begegnung und Unterstützung. Gerade für junge Menschen sind solche Angebote und sichtbare Vorbilder entscheidend, um die eigene Identität selbstbewusst entwickeln zu können.  Sie merken dadurch, dass sie mit ihren Erfahrungen nicht allein sind.

Auch das Projekt „queer durchs Land“ der HOSI Salzburg verstärkt die queere Jugendarbeit in den Salzburger Gauen und bietet gemeinsam mit den Heublumen Beratung sowie Unterstützung für Betroffene, Angehörige und Vereine.

Stefanie Ruep spricht in dieser Episode mit Florian Niederseer, Gründer und Obperson des Vereins Heublume, über Pride Parades, das Heublumenfest und das queere Leben am Land.

Mehr dazu könnt ihr im Werkspost-Kommentar „Jedes Dorf braucht einen Regenbogen“ von Stefanie Ruep lesen.

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Der Werkspost Newsletter greift unbequeme Themen in Stadt und Land Salzburg auf und macht Regionaljournalismus, wie wir ihn brauchen. Die Meinung der Journalist:innen unseres Vertrauens. Jeden zweiten Mittwoch exklusiv in deinem Posteingang.

HIER geht’s zum Newsletter-Abo.

Der Werkspodcast vertieft das jeweilige Thema des Werkspost-Kommentars in einem Studiogespräch.

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Redaktion: Stefanie Ruep

Produktion/Technik: Christian Veichtlbauer

Ten years have now passed since a deeply divided United Kingdom voted – by an extremely narrow margin – to leave the European Union.

At the time, the ‘Leave camp’ promised greater sovereignty, faster economic growth and tighter control over immigration. In this episode, our colleagues around the bloc look at whether the UK has achieved its Brexit objectives; at how Brexit has reshaped the UK’s economy, society and relations with Europe; and at the lessons the rest of Europe might draw from it.

Taking it personally

From a personal perspective, as a British person who had been living in Belgium for almost 10 years at the time of the vote, the referendum result was devastating. Born in the late 1970s, I had grown up with multiple layers of identity that I had never had cause to question: I was English, I was British, I was European… Then all of a sudden, one whole layer of my identity was ripped away overnight. Literally overnight. I entered a protracted period of grief – I don’t use that word lightly – and my relationship with my ‘motherland’ has never been quite the same again.

Watching Brexit unfold from across the Channel has been painful. The revolving door of prime ministers, the increasingly extreme rhetoric, the divisions within families – including my own. And on a purely practical level, it has impacted my life in many ways: cutting me off from my parents during COVID, prompting me to take on a new nationality (for which I am extremely grateful), and preventing friends, family and indeed businesses from sending me parcels from the UK anymore owing to heavy customs charges and formalities…

Piotr Cieplak experienced Brexit from the other side. The filmmaker, academic and writer moved to the UK from Poland as a teenager, and he has been living there for more than 25 years now. He gives our colleagues at The Europeans some insight into how even extremely integrated migrants were affected in the UK.

Piotr Cieplak, Long-Term UK Resident (in English):

“I’ve never experienced any kind of direct racism or xenophobia. And I’m pretty sure that’s because of my – I don’t know – accent, education, general bolshiness… […] There’s just a kind of bewilderment to my being here. And over the years, I’ve learned to very graciously accept compliments about the quality of my English when a person I’m speaking to learns my name. And that’s fine. But some things shifted, I think, around referendum time – not so much in the immediate aftermath, but in the campaign. Because obviously, immigration and an anti-European-migrant rhetoric ramped up so much. And some of it was really interesting, because it took the form of small things, and actually quite well-meaning things, but often tone deaf. So, all of a sudden, these remarks about how welcome I was, […] or getting a lot of praise for my work ethic.”

https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/ten-years-on-can-we-talk-about-the-b-word

It is, of course, common knowledge that huge numbers of Europeans chose to leave the UK at that point, often saying that they didn’t recognise it anymore.

Taking back control

Dalia Asanavičiūtė-Gružauskienė was formerly chair of the Lithuanian Community in the UK and is now an MP. She tells Žinių Radijas that many of the Britons who voted for Brexit did not fully understand the implications of leaving the bloc. And that one of the key pledges of the Leave campaign has not lived up to its promise.

Dalia Asanavičiūtė-Gružauskienė, Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (in Lithuanian):

“The morning after, once the referendum results had been announced, the top Google search was ‘What is the European Union?’. It seemed that many Britons who had voted in the Brexit referendum hadn’t fully understood what they were leaving behind; what they had just given up. I personally encountered a rather strange belief that, after the referendum, the number of NON-Europeans would decline in the UK – so, not EU citizens but citizens of third countries. But the opposite happened: the number of Europeans is falling. […] Meanwhile, the UK’s migration problems are enormous.”

To back up this assertion, Linda Givetash of our very own fact-checking team cites research confirming a link between Brexit and rising migration.

Linda Givetash, Euranet Plus Fact-Checker (in English):

“An EU parliamentary briefing in June 2025 found that Brexit led to an increase of migration to Britain – the opposite of the desired effect.”

And were there any other unintended consequences of the Leave vote?

Linda Givetash, Euranet Plus Fact-Checker (in English):

“An analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Brexit had reduced the UK’s Gross Domestic Product by as much as eight per cent in 2025, while employment was down by four per cent and investment was down by as much as 18 per cent.”

Oh yes, the economy.

British writer and correspondent William Chislett has lived in Spain for the last 40 years. He is a senior research fellow at the Madrid think tank the Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies, not to mention one of Spain’s leading experts on UK-EU relations. He gives esRadio a concrete example.

William Chislett, Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute (in Spanish):

“Some 16,000 small businesses have stopped exporting to the European Union. There’s a free trade agreement after Brexit. So, the problem is not a lack of a free trade agreement. The problem is that […] there’s much more paperwork and so on. And the smallest businesses are fed up with all this paperwork.”

https://www.esradiocastillayleon.es/castilla-y-leon/actualidad/william-chislett-el-brexit-ha-sido-un-fracaso-economico-y-politico-para-el-reino-unido

On the plus side, Lithuanian member Asanavičiūtė-Gružauskienė adds that the UK’s protracted and difficult withdrawal from the EU, along with the visible losses that followed, has provided a cautionary tale.

Dalia Asanavičiūtė-Gružauskienė, Member of the Lithuanian Parliament (in Lithuanian):

“It is clear to everyone that, in the case of Britain, Brexit and withdrawal from the European Union led to a lengthy and complex withdrawal process. To this day, certain issues remain unresolved. […] From time to time, calls [from other countries] to leave the EU grow louder. Nevertheless, I would say that the EU’s central institutions are no longer as fearful of such rhetoric, with this concrete example to point to.”

https://www.ziniuradijas.lt/laidos/euranet-plius/gyvenu-europoje-es-be-jk-jau-10-metu-kam-sis-sprendimas-buvo-naudingas?video=1

Resetting relations

Under the now-departing Labour prime minister Keir Starmer, the UK has moved significantly closer to Europe again. Kuku Raadio asks MEP Sven Mikser, a member of the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament and former Estonian foreign minister, whether we will see this trend continue if Andy Burnham, for example, takes the reins in Westminster.

Sven Mikser, Member of the European Parliament – S&D, Estonia (in Estonian):

„I believe we will see a continuation of this trend. Because all the beautiful things that were promised through [the UK’s] restored sovereignty and departure [from the EU] – all those independently concluded favourable trade agreements and large investments in the social sphere and healthcare – well, these have not actually materialised. And the UK’s overall influence on the world stage has declined since leaving the EU.”

Mikser adds that, according to opinion polls, a significant portion of the British public believe that Brexit was a mistake, with many even willing to consider a return to the bloc. Indeed, a survey by YouGov in February this year found that 55 per cent of Britons would support rejoining the EU.

There is also a changing demographic to take into account, he notes.

Sven Mikser, Member of the European Parliament – S&D, Estonia (in Estonian):

“At the time of the referendum, 10 years ago, there was a clear generational divide. Older voters were more pro-Brexit, perhaps in the grip of nostalgia for the British Empire. As a rule, younger voters were in favour of staying in the EU. Time itself has further reinforced this trend.“

https://kuku.pleier.ee/uudised/kumme-aastat-brexiti-otsusest-kas-britid-tahaksid-tagasi-eli

Renascença mentions these same opinion polls to João Vale de Almeida, who was the EU’s first ambassador to the UK in the immediate aftermath of Brexit. He considers it unlikely that the UK will ‘Breturn’ in the foreseeable future, for several reasons.

João Vale de Almeida, Former EU Ambassador to the UK (in Portuguese):

“The first is that the polls you refer to – which do indeed exist – coexist with another poll suggesting that if the British public were called upon to vote in a general election, they would choose the party led by one of the leading advocates of Brexit, Nigel Farage. […] There is still an aspect here relating to political stability and the stability of British public opinion, which has not yet been consolidated. And secondly, we need to see what the EU thinks about [such a return]. It seems to me that we are still in the heat of the moment. The divorce was traumatic and it would be difficult for the couple to get back together so soon. And there are a number of issues that would arise. Namely, the conditions the UK would be seeking versus those the EU could accept.”

On this note, William Chislett highlights one of the major stumbling blocks in Labour’s drive to forge a more positive working relationship with the rest of Europe.

William Chislett, Senior Research Fellow at the Elcano Royal Institute (in Spanish):

“The Labour government is in favour of what they call a ‘reset’. […] But the big problem is that the Labour government has set a number of red lines. More than anything, the major red line is that they don’t want to accept the free movement of people again, but this is one of the fundamental pillars of the European Union.”

So, where should our focus lie? Renascença puts this question to João Vale de Almeida.

João Vale de Almeida, Former EU Ambassador to the UK (in Portuguese):

“I think the key thing now is to strengthen the good relationship we have with this Labour government, regardless of who the prime minister is, to lay the foundations for a closer relationship, to make life easier for our citizens and our businesses. […] For example, European students’ favourable access to British universities. Cooperation will be revived in various fields, but security and defence will certainly be priority areas.”

https://rr.pt/artigo/euranet/2026/06/26/breturn-a-vista-e-um-bocadinho-dificil-para-o-casal-voltar-a-unir-se-tao-cedo/476042/

A new precedent

As Britain vies to reset its relationship with the European Union, the legacy of Brexit continues to be felt ten years on in more indirect ways, too.

Here we return to fact-checker Linda Givetash, who reminds us that the influence of bots on social media, foreign voter manipulation and targeted digital advertising were virtually unheard of back in 2016, and yet massively influenced the outcome of the Brexit referendum.

Linda Givetash, Euranet Plus Fact-Checker (in English):

“The Brexit case demonstrated that targeted misinformation has the potential to manipulate political processes and undermine institutional functioning, even in the most developed democracies. Studies found that Twitter bots had boosted political messaging during the campaign, particularly in favour of the Leave camp, only to disappear right after the polls closed. Other studies have shown that Russia was behind many of these accounts. Brexit was among a string of scandals regarding foreign interference and voter manipulation globally that experts now broadly see as a wake-up call for Europe in tackling misinformation and viewing it as a security issue. It contributed to the political momentum behind digital governance initiatives such as the Digital Services Act and the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation.”

https://euranetplus-inside.eu/brexits-legacy-10-years-on/

Pretty much ever since the momentous Brexit vote, we have been embroiled in a war on disinformation and political sabotage – and this war is likely to go on long into the future.