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Gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen

Infopagina's over de EU 02-02-2024

Gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen is een van de doelstellingen van de Europese Unie. In de loop der jaren hebben wetgeving, rechtspraak en wijzigingen van de Verdragen bijgedragen aan de versterking van dit beginsel en de uitvoering ervan in de EU. Het Europees Parlement heeft de gelijkheid van vrouwen en mannen altijd met hand en tand verdedigd.

Supranationale besluitvormingsprocedures

Infopagina's over de EU 09-01-2024

De lidstaten zijn met de Europese Unie overeengekomen om op grond van hun lidmaatschap van de EU op specifieke beleidsvlakken een deel van hun bevoegdheden over te dragen aan de EU-instellingen. Daarom kunnen de EU-instellingen binnen hun wetgevende en uitvoerende procedures, de begrotingsprocedures, de benoemingsprocedures en de quasi-constitutionele procedures bindende supranationale besluiten nemen.

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Mission to Denmark scheduled from 15 to 17 May 2023. It includes information about female entrepreneurship in Denmark, challenges and programmes for women entrepreneurs, the action of the Danish institutions concerned and the role of the EU funding in supporting women's entrepreneurship in Denmark.

This briefing, written by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the European Parliament's Committee on Women’s rights and Gender Equality, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (IWD), which this year elaborates on “the gender aspects of energy poverty”. It points out the initiatives of the three European institutions - the European Parliament, the Commission and the Council - in this regard.

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Delegation to New York and Washington, D.C. scheduled from 5 to 11 March 2023. It includes information on the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), a functional commission of the United Nation’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated ...

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Mission to Poland scheduled from 2 to 4 November 2022. It includes information about Gender Equality, LGBTI+ Rights, Sexual and reproductive health and rights and Refugees in Poland.

This Briefing, written by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides background information for the FEMM Delegation to Ethiopia scheduled from 19 to 23 September 2022. It includes information about the elimination of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), the barriers to women’s political participation, the violence against women in the current war context and the situation of the LGBTI community in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic crisis have impacted women differently than men in the European Union. Even if gender issues have never been so high-up in the European political agenda, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis are putting in jeopardy the progress achieved in the past decade in terms on the reduction of gender inequalities in European member states. The effects of the COVID-19 sanitary crisis have also served to highlight the need for member states to develop proactive ...

The Republic of Iceland is one of the smallest European countries, with a population of 370,000 inhabitants in 2021 . It is an island state and its official language is Icelandic. Historically, geographically and politically, Iceland is connected to the Scandinavian countries and is part of the Nordic countries, but does not belong to the EU. Iceland is a part of the EEA Agreement, which enables the country to enjoy the benefits of the EU’s single market without the full privileges and responsibilities ...

On the International Women’s Day, let us recall the context in which the current event is taking place. Just about a year ago, the World Health Organisation proclaimed the COVID 19 as the global pandemics. In the scope of several weeks, it has affected all the countries in the world and persists until this day, in spite of the existence of vaccines. Hence, further societal developments are uncertain and more changes within it are to be expected. In the sections below, the Policy Department tries ...