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The coalition negotiations are all about the exorbitant budget deficit. One construction site is almost being forgotten at the moment - the education crisis. Here, too, there is bad news every day. Hannes Androsch - shortly before his death - and Andreas Salcher therefore called for urgent help for the school system.

One of many precarious examples is that almost half of first-graders in Vienna's elementary school do not speak enough German to be able to follow the lessons. Yet 61 percent of these children were born in Austria, and 24 percent are even Austrian citizens.