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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

Democracy and society | 07.06.2021

Sebastian Kurz's fall from grace

Recent corruption scandals have not only ruined the Austrian leader's clean-cut image. His entire political project has been exposed as pure [...]

Europe | 07.01.2020

Austria's political experiment

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

Interviews | 30.09.2019

'A pro-European eco-chancellor'?

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

Interviews | 21.05.2019

'The images are already iconic'

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

Europe | 27.02.2019

Yes to the quota!

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

Europe | 09.10.2018

Ode to Joy

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

Europe | 28.09.2018

A missed opportunity

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

Europe | 04.06.2018

Orban in Lederhosen

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

Women in politics | 15.02.2018

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

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

Europe | 18.10.2017

Copycat Kurz

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

Right-wing extremism and how to deal with it | 10.10.2017

‘Keep right and carry on!’

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