10/07/2018 (Agence Europe) – Addressing the European Parliament women's rights committee on Tuesday 10 July, the Austrian Minister for Women, the Family and Youth, Juliane Bogner-Strauss, defended a Europe that concentrated on the major questions and left the member states and their regions to deal with more specific questions. She did, nonetheless, emphasise that she supported a new European gender equality strategy, replacing the previous strategy that expired in 2015. On the legislative dossiers currently being examined, she promised that the discussions on the anti-discrimination directive, presented 10 years ago, but which has still not been adopted, would be pursued in a working party, while on the question of quotas of women on the boards of directors, Austria would continue to follow this dossier closely, “by taking the opinions of the member states into account”. (SPj)