Austrian Gas Grid Management Austrian Gas Grid Management AGGM Austrian Gas Grid Management (AGGM) assumed on June 1st 2017 the role of market area manager (MAM) for the Eastern gas market area in Austria, which comprises all Austrian provinces except for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In this role, which AGGM took over from Gas Connect Austria GmbH (GCA), the company is responsible for the management of the international gas transmission systems that are operated at present exclusively in the eastern part of Austria. There are no transmission systems in the market areas of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. This is the reason why, in accordance with the
Burgenland 1990 Burgenland regained its traditional role as a bridge between the western and eastern parts of Central Europe. Cross-border links were strengthened when Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004. All three countries became part of the Schengen zone in late 2007 when border controls finally ceased to exist in the region. Burgenland has notable Croatian (29,000–45,000) and Hungarian (5,000–15,000) populations. The Croats arrived after the devastating Ottoman war in 1532, when the Ottoman army destroyed some settlements in their ethnic territory. The emigration in great haste of the Catholic remained population of western Slavonia into the