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Swedish Minister Paulina Brandberg says “it’s all in the balance”

Brussels, 25/01/2023 (Agence Europe)

Violence, economic power, inequality in times of crisis... Paulina Brandberg, Swedish Minister for Gender Equality, outlined the gender equality priorities of her country’s Presidency of the Council of the EU (see EUROPE B13093A8) to the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) on Wednesday 25 January. 

While her speech opened with the consequences of the war in Ukraine for women, children and minorities, she mainly stressed the importance of...