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You canβt be serious, right? Right?
Austria is deeply corrupt and making taxpayer gifts to private investors, and then forgetting the ties to what good the investor needs to bring in return is standard procedure in Germany and Austria. Somehow the people involved on government side then tend to get lucrative presentation deals, or flast for cheap, but our corruption laws mostly concern themselves with the waste worker getting flowers too expensive, rather than high level interactions between government, businesses and politicians.
Sadly I am serious.
If you understand German (or can bear automatically transcribed and automatically translated subtitles), here's a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyeD33xhi8