13/07/2020 (Agence Europe) – In a statement issued on Monday 13 July, the PES Women political grouping – the gender equality arm of the Party of European Socialists– said that the EU’s response to the Covid-19 crisis risked perpetuating and deepening existing gender inequalities, as it lacked “gender mainstreamed budgets and targeted funding for gender equality”. The organisation also advocates that gender equality be a precondition for funding under the EU Recovery Plan. It...