- Title: 290 AT COVID-19 Border region
- Date: 13th May 2020
- Description:Local businesses suffer as border remains shut In Upper Austria people in the border regions have lived together for many years, with Austria´s entry into the EU the region has grown together, and many restaurants and shops benefited from people moving freely. All this has been stopped for 8 weeks now already, and the economy of the region is hard hit, restaurants and shop have losses of over 50 percent. As the border will be open again on June 15th for everybody, the border regions hope for some easing before. The town Braunau is only separated by the river Inn from the neighboring town Simbach, so people on this riverside and on the other are used to live and work together and have commuted regularly in the past. Shotlist - WS of weekly market in Braunau - SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Klaus Berer, Chamber of Commerce, Braunau: "the situation is very serious, and dramatic, for many businesses, it differs for the sectors. The sectors hit the hardest are gastronomy, retail trade and fuel stations."X SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Klaus Berer, Chamber of Commerce, Braunau: "Since at least the entry to the EU, the region has grown together, and are now one common living and working region. So all are used to the fact to have guests and customers from the other side, and this has stopped all of a sudden, and now it is still not possible, the businesses suffer a lot from this. And therefore we ask to open the borders for everybody earlier than it has now been announced." - GV Fashion store in Braunau -C/U Window of the fashion store - GV Inside the fashion store -SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Renate Moser, shop owner in Braunau: "We have a lot of regular customers from Simbach and surrounding area, and for us it is a big problem, we have a loss of sales of over 40 percent. -SOUNDBITE (GERMAN) Renate Moser, shop owner in Braunau: "The German customers have always been here, and they not only come from Simbach, but also from further away and they are very important for us. " - Pan shot rRver Inn, border crossing on the bridge - GV Closed border Braunau over the river Inn -WS closed border, Sign of Braunau, and sign of Simbach on the other side of the border
- Collection: ORF
- Genre:News
- Producer:ORF
- Transmission Date:13/05/2020
- Decade: 2020s