Visit from the Lithuanian Government

Audrius Bitinas - Vice-minister of Social Security and Labour and Vanda Jurseniene - Deputy Head of European Union Division, Ministry of Social Security and Labour visited EIGE on 6th of April 2011. The main topics of discussion were the  preparatory work for the upcoming Presidency of Lithuania, the selected area of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) to be reviewed by EIGE and institutional cooperation between the Institute and the Ministry.

Background

Lithuania will  take the Presidency of the European Union Council from  the  second half of 2013. Including the many important tasks for the Presidency is the  follow -up of the cirtical area of concern identified in the BPfA that deals with Gender Equality issues.