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Von der Leyen fails to hit her own 50% female EU Commissioners target

Neville Gafa

~ 3 months ago

Von der Leyen fails to hit her own 50% female EU Commissioners target

Ursula von der Leyen fell short of her target to enforce positive discrimination Tuesday as she presented her list of 27 EU Commission members Tuesday – a day after France’s Thierry Breton resigned in anger at her “personal” attacks against him.

 

Von der Leyen had demanded member states put forward both a male and a female candidate, but several only submitted one.

 

Among the new posts is former Estonian Prime Minister and fierce Kremlin critic Kaja Kallas, who assumes her role as foreign policy chief.

 

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