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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10681
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) women

Funding for gender equality renewed, albeit controversial

Brussels, 04/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - With the vote, on Monday 3 September, on the 2013 Union budget by the parliamentary committee for women's rights and gender equality (FEMM), the debate on the usefulness of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), based in Vilnius, was rekindled. Although members of the FEMM committee had agreed to an increase in funding proposed by the European Commission (initially 7%, but then brought down to 6% by member states), British MEP Marina...

Contents

ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
SECTORAL POLICIES
EXTERNAL ACTION
SOCIAL AFFAIRS - CULTURE - EDUCATION