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Interviews von der Eröffnung der Elisabeth-Woche – Interviews mit der Ministerin für Frauen, Wissenschaft und Forschung Eva-Maria Holzleitner, der TV Moderatorin Arabella Kiesbauer und der Bad Ischler Bürgermeisterin Ines Schiller

Am Montag, den 20. April wurde im Kongress- und Theaterhaus Bad Ischl die erste Elisabeth- Woche eröffnet. Bis zum Freitag wird in unterschiedlichen Veranstaltungsformaten die Rolle der Frauen in Wirtschaft, Tourismus, Kultur und Gesellschaft in den Mittelpunkt gerückt. Dabei sollen feministische Anliegen gestärkt und und ein gedanklicher Austausch über neue Perspektiven ermöglicht werden. Und es sollen Leistungen von Frauen gewürdigt und sichtbar gemacht werden.

Bei der Podiumsdiskussion zur Eröffnung diskutierten auf Einladung der Bad Ischler Bürgermeisterin Ines Schiller erfolgreiche und prominente Frauen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen über Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern, Sichtbarkeit und Solidarität. Neben der Frauenministerin waren u.a. die Rektorin der Kunstuni Linz, Brigitte Hütter, die Vorständin der Salinen Austria Ariane Herzog oder die künstlerische Leiterin der Kulturhauptstadt GmbH Elisabeth Schweger auf der Bühne. Die Moderation übernahm Arabella Kiesbauer. Musikalische Unterstützung gab es von der der Landesmusikschule Bad Ischl.

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Der Widerhall – Das FRS Magazin

Die Tirolerin Nikoletta Zambelis ist Kabarettistin und Organisationsmangerin. Am Samstag, den 25. April 2026 tritt sie um 20.00 Uhr mit ihrem Programm „Geschüttelt nicht geführt“ im TIK Dornbirn auf. Ich habe mit ihr über ihre Leidenschaften Kabarett, Literatur und Schauspiel gesprochen. Sie verdreht gerne Worte und schüttelt sie kräftig durch. Genauso wie James Bond.

Zum Event und den Tickets: https://tik-dornbirn.at/events/tik-kabarett-geschuettelt-nicht-gefuehrt-2/

Nikoletta Zambelis Website: https://www.derblickwinkel.at/das-angebot/seminarr-kabarett/

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Die Stimme des guten Hirten: Fürsorge, kirchlicher Beruf und Verantwortung für die Gemeinschaft.

JOSÉPHINE Antirassismus im Radio  heißt unsere neu  Radiosendung, jeden 4. Donnerstag im Monat um 16 Uhr, die darauf abzielt, die oft unsichtbare Arbeit gegen Rassismus hörbar zu machen.

Am Telefon habe ich nun Simon INOU, er ist der Redaktionsleiter der neuen Sendereihe Antirassismus im Radio.

Ästhetik und Haltbarkeit

In dieser Episode von Simple Smart Buildings teilt Friedrich Idam persönliche Erfahrungen mit dem Gartenzaun, der in den 1960er Jahren errichtet worden ist. Zentrales Thema sind die Herausforderungen in der Verarbeitung von Holz, das frei bewittert wird. Dabei wird auch die Verbindung von praktischen und ästhetischen Aspekten beleuchtet. Der Host reflektiert über die Entwicklungsprozesse, die aus einem Mangel an Ressourcen hervorgingen, und die Imprägnierungsmaßnahmen zur Verhinderung der Verwitterung sowie deren ökologische Aspekte.

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Andrius Kubilius, the European Commissioner for Defence and Space, answers questions from moderator Aušra Jurgauskaitė and a panel of Euranet Plus journalists at our Euranet Plus summit.

As the EU faces its biggest security crisis since its creation, the first-ever “European commissioner” hat has been given to veteran Lithuanian politician Andrius Kubilius – a former prime minister and member of the European parliament. However, this comes with multiple headaches, the most pressing of which are the war in Ukraine, the growing threat posed by Russia to the continent, and the Trump administration’s ‘NATO 3.0’ vision.

‘Forged in crises’

The 2026 US National Defence Strategy shifts American defence priorities, redirecting the focus of the American powerhouse to the Indo-Pacific and the ‚Western hemisphere‘. Based on the premise that European nations are wealthy enough to ensure their own defence, the US is relegating its role on the European continent to a secondary position within NATO. NATO 3.0 is a new partnership in which the United States’ support is conditional on other alliance members meeting defence spending targets of at least five per cent of their GDP and reducing their dependency.

The challenge for Europe is abysmal, but as Andrius Kubilius quoted Jean Monnet, the ‚father of Europe‘, as saying: ‚Europe will be forged in crises and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises‘. So, the defence commissioner points out, Europeans must now stand on their own two feet and jointly find their own solutions to develop credible military capabilities.

In fact, for decades, the United States has been the enabler of Europe’s defence, providing cutting-edge military capabilities, technologies and infrastructure. Between 80,000 and 100,000 U.S. troops are also stationed on the continent, a presence that US President Donald Trump has regularly threatened to withdraw.

In this context, is the commissioner in favour of establishing a European army? asks Aušra.

“If Americans start to remove those troops from the European continent, then we need to look also at how to replace them. And that is where it comes to this idea, or one of the possible solutions that we need to create a similar type of military force, a European military force, which could play a similar role. And that role is to be something like a rapid reaction force. […] We can call that a European army; we can call that a European rapid reaction force… but what we need to understand is that this is not a replacement of national European armies: it’s a replacement of the American troops which are now located on the European continent.”

Unlocking potential

In order to reduce its dependency on foreign suppliers, Europe has embarked on a rearmament wave. Brussels has proposed loans to support member states ramp up production and accelerate the scaling up of the EU defence industry.

However, as Kubilius acknowledges during the debate, this defence industry is highly fragmented, the result of decades of uncoordinated defence policies and spending. SKAI journalist Marianna raises concerns about the coordination issues and delays that frequently arise in defence projects involving collaboration between several EU countries and wonders how the EU could improve cooperation between member states to speed up the implementation of these joint projects.

While the EU has launched several initiatives meant to overcome these obstacles, Kubilius notes that it always all comes down to one and only issue: a lack of leadership in EU defence.

“What is important to understand is that, in order really for Europe to be able to be much more successful in the development of big pan-European projects – like the Drone Defence Initiative, like the Eastern Flank Watch, or the Air Defence Shield – we need to have much more of political unity in the leadership of the European Union among member states on defence issues. That still needs to come.”

Meanwhile, the European Union remains heavily dependent on the United States for its weapons supply. The issue now is that even increasing spending may not be enough right now. The war in Iran has depleted some US stockpiles, creating supply shortages.

Europeans continue to rely heavily on Washington for both arms deliveries to Ukraine and their own rearmament. Mart, from Estonian Kuku Raadio, questions the bloc’s defence chief what short-term solutions are available under these circumstances to ensure the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

“It appears that Ukrainians are much more able [than the EU] to quickly surge production of different weapons […]. What we need to see as a bigger issue, is that at the moment, despite all our investments into defence, Russia is outproducing us – quite heavily. And that really is a bad tendency. For example, in the production of cruise missiles, Russia is producing per year around 1,200 missiles. We, in the European Union, were able to produce around 300. Ukrainians last year started to produce cruise missiles, so-called Flamingos: this year they will produce around 700. The Russians are producing per year around 1,000 ballistic missiles, which were used to attack Ukraine. We are not producing [them] at all in Europe, [while] Ukrainians are starting to produce this year their own ballistic missiles.”

This suggests that EU support for Ukraine could extend beyond simply supplying weapons to helping the country develop its own arms industry.

So when Danièle, our colleague from Luxembourg’s Radio 100.7, asks the defence commissioner what he thinks of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent suggestion that Ukraine should join a common defence system, his answer is straightforward.

“I see a lot of rationality in what President Zelensky was and is speaking about. […] First of all, we need to understand that, if Putin decides to start an aggression against NATO or EU member states, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Russia, as our military intelligence always is warning us, then we shall face a Russian battle-tested army, which is able to use millions of drones – Ukrainians are predicting that this year the Russians will be able to use around 7 or 8 million drones. So, the Russian army is today much stronger than it was back in 2022. And on our side, among EU members or members of NATO, we do not have such battle-tested experience, only Ukrainians have it. So, from that point of view, to look into possibilities of how to integrate both battle-tested Ukrainian industrial capabilities and military capabilities would be a very strong, a very big added value to the development of our European defence capabilities.”

Towards a European defence union

Andrius Kubilius believes that Ukraine should play a part in a genuine European Defence Union.

But what is the underlying logic for achieving this? And what is the way forward?

“We need to look at how to create some kind of a broader system of defence, which would be broader than the European Union, and which would also allow us to overcome such problems such as some countries, for the time being, not agreeing to have Ukraine as a member of NATO. That is why the idea which is called the European Defence Union […], that idea is what we are working on.”

The Lithuanian commissioner advocates a bold vision involving the ratification of a new pan-European, intergovernmental treaty on defence. This approach offers numerous advantages, as he explains to Euranet Plus.

“It will demand, maybe […] a new additional intergovernmental treaty, which would allow us to establish some kind of network of different member states, united for common defence:- having as a leadership, what we call a European Security Council; – being able to make decisions on a majority voting principle, not being blocked by anybody who wants to veto everything; – and then perhaps also such a treaty could have clear provisions also about the possibility of creating a European army, which we were talking before. So this idea of a European Defence Union, where among EU member states or next to EU member states, we could have also the United Kingdom, Norway, Ukraine, maybe some other countries, that’s what I see as a very important perspective.”

Space mission: down to earth

Kubilius is not only responsible for defence: space is also part of his portfolio. Our colleague Neža, from Austrian radio station Agora, asks him about the bloc’s space ambitions, particularly in light of NASA’s recent Artemis II milestone. Will we ever see European astronauts on the Moon?

“We should not forget that some very important components in that mission were produced by Europeans. And this spaceship, Orion, would not be able to reach the Moon without the European propulsion system. I will not go into the details, but we can be proud that we were also part of that mission. Now, you know, I cannot predict when Europeans also, as astronauts, will land on the Moon, but we are quite active with the exploration of the Moon, and perhaps we shall expand our programmes using different robotic instruments.”

When it comes to space policy, the commissioner calls for both feet to be kept on the ground. Although the Union may enter the space race later than the US, it has other strengths in space exploration. Its main focus is engineering, precision, and long-term systems, and it often produces technology of a very high standard, including for Moon exploration.

This could involve robotic missions rather than human missions, for example.

“Usually, we are not so good at some kind of „romantic“ – you know, „first movers into new frontiers” – we are good at coming up with good technologies in the development of those frontiers. That has happened, for example, with Galileo: we were late in starting to develop our navigation system, but now it’s the best system in the world. The same with Copernicus. So, I think that we shall be in the future on the Moon, maybe with a specific European approach. But definitely we need to understand that a totally new era in exploration of space has started with the Artemis II mission.”

V aprilski oddaji Urbani ritem na Radiu Agora se bomo potopili v živahen pomladni koncertni utrip. Sprehodili se bomo od razigranega humorja in rocka skupine Ana Pupedan v Gali hali na Metelkovi do brezčasne satire Ramba Amadeusa v Orto baru. Ujeli bomo elektroniko dueta Electric Rastrello v AKC NAMA v Škofji Loki, nato pa dvakrat zavili v Kino Šiška – najprej k legendarni francoski zasedbi Les Négresses Vertes, potem pa še k hipnotični Yasmine Hamdan. V Gali hali bodo nastopili tudi eksplozivni balkanski punk‑folk posebneži Kultur Shock, za konec pa v Šiški še meditativni improvizacijski nastop z avstralskim triom The Necks.

In der April‑Sendung Urbani ritem auf Radio Agora tauchen wir in den lebhaften Frühlings‑Konzertpuls ein. Wir spazieren vom verspielten Humor und Rock der Gruppe Ana Pupedan in der Gala Hala auf Metelkova bis zur zeitlosen Satire von Rambo Amadeus im Orto Bar. Wir fangen die Elektronik des Duos Electric Rastrello im AKC NAMA in Škofja Loka ein und machen anschließend zweimal Halt im Kino Šiška – zuerst bei der legendären französischen Band Les Négresses Vertes und danach bei der hypnotischen Yasmine Hamdan. In der Gala Hala treten außerdem die explosiven Balkan‑Punk‑Folk‑Exzentriker Kultur Shock auf, und zum Abschluss erwartet uns in Šiška noch ein meditativ‑improvisatorischer Auftritt des australischen Trios The Necks.

Von unerklärlichen Schmerzen bis zur späten Diagnose – im Gespräch mit Gynäkologin Miriam M. Mottl über Fakten, Mythen und neue Hoffnung bei Endometriose.

Endometriose – eine Erkrankung, von der jede zehnte Frau betroffen ist, über die aber noch immer viel zu wenig bekannt ist. In dieser Folge sprechen Magdalena und Judith mit Ärztin Miriam M. Mottl darüber, was Endometriose eigentlich ist, wie sich das Wissen in den letzten Jahren verändert hat und warum die Studienlage noch immer schwach ist.

Es geht um die Frage, wie eine Diagnose gestellt wird, welche Behandlungsmöglichkeiten Hoffnung geben und warum auch Beckenbodentraining und Physiotherapie eine wichtige Rolle spielen können. Miriam M. Mottl teilt wertvolle medizinische Insights, räumt mit Mythen auf und zeigt, dass es Hilfe und Unterstützung gibt.

Eine ehrliche und informative Folge voller spannender Einblicke – die selbst Magdalena und Judith zum Staunen gebracht hat.

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