Hung(a)ry for gender equality deliberation in a conservative EU
Hungarian women have it tough. Recently, the two highest-positioned female members of the Hungarian government, President Katalin Novák and former Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Judit Varga, resigned over a scandal where they pardoned a man implicated in paedophilic sexual abuse. Hungary also has one of the lowest EU Gender Equality Index scores […]
The EU has an accountability problem. Doubling down on ethics can help change that
Anyone know a good dentist? ‘It’s toothless’. The European Commission’s proposal for an inter-institutional ethics body needs a dentist. This late-stage delivery from the 2019 Political Guidelines garnered criticism for seeking to deliver ‘transparency and integrity’ through a merely advisory function, without the powers to investigate and sanction members of the EU institutions. Amid ‘Qatargate’, […]
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