Was gender equality made to take a backseat in the next European Commission? | Radio Schuman

By Maïa de La Baume & Eleonora Vasques

Is EU argumentation connected equality going to instrumentality a backseat successful the upcoming mandate of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen?

Back successful 2019, von der Leyen named Malta's Helena Dalli the EU's Commissioner successful complaint of equality. But past week, erstwhile she announced her connection for the caller squad of European Commissioners, von der Leyen ditched the equality portfolio, combining it alternatively with "preparedness and situation management".

Many NGOs defending women's rights reacted to what they saw arsenic von der Leyen's worrying deficiency of information for the contented astatine a clip erstwhile far-right parties — which reason the thought that sex issues are important — are entering the authorities each implicit Europe.

What happened to the equality portfolio? What should we expect from the EU Commission connected this issue?

Today, Radio Schuman talks astir the taxable with MEP Lina Gálvez (Spain/S&D), who presides implicit the European Parliament's Committee connected Women's Rights and Gender Equality, aka FEMM.

We besides connection a speedy look astatine the docket today, with von der Leyen's travel to Kyiv taking centre signifier and peculiar paradoxes plaguing caller Commissioner portfolios.

On a antithetic note, we extremity the amusement with an overview of the strongest passports successful the world: however are Europeans performing?

Radio Schuman is hosted and produced by Maïa de la Baume, with writer and accumulation adjunct Eleonora Vasques, audio editing by Zacharia Vigneron and euphony by Alexandre Jas.