… Dear honourable members of the European Parliament and dear colleagues, It is with great pleasure and a necessity that I am here today to put an issue up front and center that is gripping the continent. But first, I’d …
… The EU’s budget can be a powerful force for growth and development. EU funds have helped transform less-developed regions and reduced inequality across the European Union. Yet a new … has estimated that less than 1% of the EU’s Structural and Investment Funds have been set aside for the promotion of …
… decision-making positions that shape politics, economics and society. Yet gender equality is a founding value of the EU and improving it could lead to an increase in GDP of up to … from 21% to 30%. Yet 89% of country leaders remain men and less than one in five of the EU’s major political parties …