“Frustration” was a word that came up time and again during the meeting between the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU and the European Parliament’s women’s rights and gender equality committee on 25 January. MEPs argued that the discussions on quotas for women and the Istanbul Convention were advancing too slowly in Council.
The MEPs are unhappy that the draft directive seeking to introduce a quota that would see women occupy 40% of the non-executive posts on the boards of...