The Eu Fee’s equality portfolio has been merged with the preparedness and disaster control portfolio, elevating considerations amongst NGOs that it can be omitted in EU law.
Is EU coverage on equality going to take a backseat within the upcoming mandate of Eu Fee President Ursula von der Leyen?
Again in 2019, von der Leyen named Malta’s Helena Dalli the EU’s Commissioner in control of equality. However final week, when she introduced her proposal for the brand new crew of Eu Commissioners, von der Leyen ditched the equality portfolio, combining it as an alternative with “preparedness and disaster control”.
Many NGOs protecting ladies’s rights reacted to what they noticed as von der Leyen’s being worried loss of attention for the problem at a time when far-right events — which oppose the concept that gender problems are the most important — are getting into the federal government all over the place Europe.
What came about to the equality portfolio? What must we predict from the EU Fee in this factor?
Nowadays, Radio Schuman talks concerning the matter with MEP Lina Gálvez (Spain/S&D), who presides over the Eu Parliament’s Committee on Girls’s Rights and Gender Equality, aka FEMM.
We additionally be offering a snappy have a look at the time table these days, with von der Leyen’s go back and forth to Kyiv taking centre degree and explicit paradoxes plaguing new Commissioner portfolios.
On a unique notice, we finish the display with an summary of the most powerful passports on the planet: how are Europeans acting?
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