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Ministers in Malta to push for women’s rights as an EU priority
Putting women’s rights and gender equality on the heart of EU’s agenda is the main goal of our PES Gender Equality Ministerial meeting taking place in Valletta on Thursday. Apart from supporting Malta, currently led by a progressive government, the acting president of the European Union in the first half of 2017 in their priorities such as fighting violence against women, ministers also exchanged on work-life balance and LGBTi issues.
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PES ministers ask for EU Commissioner to put gender policies back in the centre of the European agenda
The PES ministers in charge of gender equality called on the EU leaders and on the European Commission to truly engage in actions to tackle the growing gender inequality and to protect women against the reactionary backlash in some European countries. The ministers agreed that it is essential to put gender policies back in the centre of the European agenda, in a time where the European Union is searching for a new identity. The ministers strongly underlined that our political family should help shape it in a progressive way.
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