13/07/2021 (Agence Europe) – MEP Evelyn Regner (S&D, Austria), who chairs the Committee on Women’s Rights and sits on the Committee on Economic Affairs in the European Parliament, wrote the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU last week to express the European Parliament’s concern about the delay in appointing the new chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), a post that should have been taken up on 1 April (see EUROPE 12610/35). “It has come to our attention that this procedure in the Council has stalled”, she writes. In doing so, she asks the EU Council to quickly submit the name of its candidate to the European Parliament so that the new chair can be appointed before summer. Ms Regner also points out that only 10 of the EU’s 37 institutions are headed by women and thus stresses that a female candidate should be given “preferential treatment” for this position. See the letter: https://bit.ly/3r4EwnT (MF)