Austrian Minister of Labor, Family and Youth Christine Aschbacher resigns over plagiarism charges. Ashbakher said she was forced to take such a step by the prejudice from the media and political supporters..
This was preceded by a series of high-profile accusations by 37-year-old media specialist Stefan Weber, known in Austria as a " In a series of publications in his Blog for Scientific Integrity, Weber argued that Ashbacher's scientific papers contained plagiarism and falsified citations, and also reproached her for her lack of knowledge of the German language. It was about her thesis, written in 2006 in Vienna, and about her doctoral work, which Ashbacher defended in August 2020 at the Technical University of Bratislava in Slovakia. Weber offered scanned fragments of these works as evidence..
Who will replace Ashbakher at the ministerial post, it should be known on January 11.