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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10801
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) women

Berlin backtracks on quotas on company boards

Brussels, 07/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Germany appears to have had a change of heart over quotas for women on the boards of companies, and now looks unlikely to support the controversial proposal by Viviane Reding. This U-turn comes at a particularly unfortunate time, just ahead of International Women's Day on 8 March, but can be more easily explained against a pre-election German backdrop. On Wednesday 5 March, the German press announced that Berlin had instructed its services to reject the...

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