Gender equality initiatives have been worringly absent from the policies of the Barroso II commission, writes Myria Vassiliadou
14 June 2010 in The Parliament Magazine
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On the occasion of international women’s day earlier this year, European commission president José Manuel Barroso announced with great fanfare a women’s charter, a political document reiterating the strong committment of his new team to promoting women’s rights and making gender equality a reality in the EU. Simoultaneously, Barroso presented the comission’s proposal for the EU 2020 strategy, perhaps the most important framework instrument by which medium-term societal and economic change can be achieved at European level. Women’s rights and gender equality issues were absent from this document.
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- Parliament Magazine June 2010
