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Barroso urges governments to appoint more women to top EU posts
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 12 - 11 - 2009


National governments should appoint more women to
the bloc"s executive arm in Brussels, dpa cited European Commission President
Jose Manuel Barroso as saying today.
About a third of the 27 commissioners in the outgoing executive
are women, and Barroso has been pushing for an even stronger gender
balance in his second administration.
However, of the 20 nominations made so far by member states, only
three are women: Androulla Vassiliou of Cyprus, Viviane Reding of
Luxembourg and Rumiana Jeleva of Bulgaria. Two of these are already
commissioners, while Jeleva would replace another woman, Meglena
Kuneva.
Denmark is tipped to nominate Connie Hedegaard, the country"s
climate and energy minister. But she would replace another woman,
Mariann Fischer Boel.
Sweden is also thought to be considering another woman to replace
Margot Wallstrom, the current institutional affairs commissioner who
said goodbye to the Brussels media earlier this week.
"I will try to have women in the commission," Barroso said, but
"the reality is that there is no gender balance in the governments of
Europe."
The commission president noted that there is currently just one
female prime minister in the EU, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany,
and only two female heads of state, those of Finland and Lithuania,
in Europe.
"I certainly want the European Commission to look better than the
European council (the body which represents EU governments)," Barroso
said.
While Barroso must approve all nominations, he cannot impose his
choices on national governments.
"The problem is that each government has the right to send the
candidates they think are the best," said Barroso as he compared the
composition of the new commission to Rubik"s Cube.
"I cannot impose a (female) candidate on a country, and I cannot
refuse a good, competent commissioner just because he is a man,"
Barroso added.
Of the leading candidates for the top EU post being created by the
incoming Lisbon Treaty, that of council president, only one is a
woman - former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.


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