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Today in Austria: A Roundup of the Latest News on Thursday

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Vienna will let families keep existing full-day municipal kindergarten places during parental leave or temporary unemployment, while Austrian citizenship grants rose 17 percent in the first half of the year, plus more stories from Austria on Thursday.

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In the future, children will no longer have to be picked up from kindergarten earlier if they lose their jobs.

·Vienna, Austria
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"All children in Vienna must have the same chances from birth. Emmerling's announcement goes in the right direction, but is still by no means fair in terms of equal opportunities. Children of parents who were unemployed at the birth of the child are still not entitled to a kindergarten place with the new regulation. How to come [...] The post Grüne Wien/Malle and Stadler: New regulation for full-day places in kindergarten remains Stückwerk first…

Parents or guardians in Vienna who are entitled to a full-day place for their children in a municipal kindergarten will no longer lose this entitlement if they take parental leave or lose their job. Previously, in such cases, the children usually had to be picked up earlier. This is now set to change, as the responsible city councilor, Bettina Emmerling (NEOS), told the APA.

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vienna.at broke the news on Wednesday, August 12, 2026.
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