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Barbara Tóth

Barbara Tóth

Vienna

Barbara Tóth is a Vienna-based author and journalist. She writes for the magazine Falter about Austrian politics.

Articles

Austria's political experiment

The new Austrian government coalition aims to combine right-wing populism and green politics. Can that really work?

'A pro-European eco-chancellor'?

Barbara Tóth on successful Greens, crashed ethno-nationalists and Sebastian Kurz's options after the Austrian [...]

'The images are already iconic'

Barbara Tóth on what Austria's Ibizagate scandal means for the country – and European right-wing populism

Yes to the quota!

Why all European parliaments need a 50 per cent quota for women and an in-house nursery

Ode to Joy

What the first female party leader Joy Pamela Rendi-Wagner intends to do with the Austrian Social Democrats

A missed opportunity

The utopian demands of the feminist citizens’ initiative in Austria make it far too easy for its critics

Orban in Lederhosen

Austria’s EU presidency is pandering to Europe’s most chauvinistic tendencies

Grandmother, witch… or a politician getting on with the job?

Why do we still fall back on tired tropes to describe women in power?

Copycat Kurz

Austria’s Conservative leader Sebastian Kurz aped the far-right – and won the election

‘Keep right and carry on!’

How Austria’s right-wing populists have changed the entire political culture