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Von der Leyen again strives for gender parity in new commission

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Published: July 16th, 2024,
Last updated: July 17th, 2024

Will the Commission President be able to assert herself a second time in terms of gender parity vis-à-vis the member states?

If EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen receives the hoped-for majority for a second term of office in the European Parliament on Thursday, she wants to run the Berlaymont again with a Commission made up of equal numbers of men and women. She explicitly announced this in her candidacy speech in Strasbourg in 2019.

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