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Equal representation of women and men in the European Parliament: Will it be different this year?
(Brussels, 4 April 2014) Impressions on the seminar „Women and the elections: Will this time be different? “ by Danijela Stanojevic (Feminist director, scenarist, journalist and writer from Croatia writing for HTV television and for Vox feminae and producing videos and films for on topics like deconstruction of patriarchate, transgender persons, gay pride, position of women in Croatian society).
At the beginning of this month, the seminar „Women and the elections: Will this time be different? “ was held in Brussels and brought together journalists, scientists and politicians from all over Europe in order to discuss important issues around gender equality and the equal representation of women and men in political life.
Portuguese newspaper mentioning the 50/50 campaign
(Brussels, 20 March 2014) On the occasion of the International Women’s Day the Portuguese online newspaper Journali published an article about the upcoming European elections, the representation of women in the European Parliament and women’s voting behavior. The article includes as well an interview with Core Group member and MEP Zita Gurmai. Please find the whole article in portuguese here.
Relaunch of the 50/50 Campaigns Lobbying Kit
(20 February 2014) We are delighted to inform you today about the launch our 50/50 Campaigns’ “No Modern European Democracy without Gender Equality” Lobbying Kit ahead of the EU elections in May.
After we launched it at the beginning of February we had to take it out of all EWL online media due to technical problems. We are happy that we can relaunch it today!
Press Release “Beyond the Brussels Bubble”: 50/50 Parity Democracy Launch
Information Office of the European Parliament in Belgium
Wednesday 18 September 2013
15:00-19:00
EVENT – BEYOND THE BRUSSELS BUBBLE:
With the European elections just eight months away, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and it’s National Partners are working together to link European institutions with grassroots activists on the ground, going “beyond the Brussels bubble”, for parity democracy.
50/50 Campaign Core Group
Meet the cross-party alliance of MEP’s leading the 50/50 campaign in their political groups…
MEP Ulrike Lunacek, Greens/EFA: women. We need a strong binding quota on EU-level in order to break through the resistance of governments and economy. If we waited for reaching 50/50 by voluntary commitments we would wait an eternity.”
