Barbara Thaler

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Barbara Thaler (born February 16, 1982 ) is an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). In the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she ran as the Tyrolean ÖVP top candidate in eighth place on the list. Due to the preferential vote , she was ranked first and thus made it into the EU Parliament . She has been a member of the European Parliament since July 2, 2019 .

Life

Barbara Thaler grew up in Thiersee in the Kufstein district ; in 1996 she went to Innsbruck for school and training . She completed a degree in political science from 2000 at the University of Innsbruck as a Magistra in 2007, and a degree in management and IT from 2005 at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI ).

Thaler worked as an employee in an internet agency and a competence center for eTourism and worked for an EU project. She has been an entrepreneur since 2007 and runs the digital visibility agency Digithaler . From 2009 she was the owner and managing director of a start-up company , in 2012 the exit took place .

politics

She has been Vice President of the Tyrol Chamber of Commerce since 2015, and since 2018 she has also been Deputy Party Chairman of the Tyrolean People's Party .

In the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she ran as the Tyrolean ÖVP top candidate in eighth place on the list . Due to the preferential voting campaign led by the ÖVP and the 38,285 preferential votes it had achieved, it was placed in front and thus obtained a mandate for the European Parliament . With the constituent session of the 9th European Parliament on July 2, 2019, she moved into the European Parliament as a member.

After the election of the head of the delegation on June 5, 2019, the ÖVP MEPs determined their thematic distribution of tasks. Barbara Thaler became the area spokesperson for the specialist areas of transport and tourism, for the internal market and consumer protection as well as for the areas of employment and social affairs in the ÖVP delegation. Thaler belongs to the Group of the European People's Party (EPP). In the 9th electoral term she is a full member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism (TRAN) and an alternate member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Public Corporate Governance Report 2017: VKS Packaging Coordination Office non-profit GmbH . Retrieved June 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b EU ELECTION 2019: Tyrol's VP candidate Thaler wins EU mandate with 37,690 preferential votes . Article dated May 28, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c CV Barbara Thaler . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ my seconded by Barbara Thaler Accessed on June 26 of 2019.
  5. ↑ a b WKO: MMag. Barbara Thaler . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b orf.at: Thaler: With preferential vote record to Brussels . Article dated May 28, 2019, retrieved May 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ BMI: European elections 2019: List 1, Austrian People's Party, ÖVP . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ BMI: European elections 2019: preferential votes . Retrieved June 12, 2019.
  9. ↑ ÖVP MEPs define thematic responsibilities . OTS notification dated June 5, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019.
  10. ↑ Austrian MEPs represented in all specialist committees. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thaler, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (ÖVP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1982