What a week! It's not often that things move so fast... but with today's decision by the Dutch cabinet to nominate Neelie Kroes for a second term, and the earlier nomination of Connie Hedegaard there are currently 9 female nominees. Since the low point...

The campaign is making progress. More than 700 have signed the petition and our Facebook fans amount to 1600! Three countries left to nominate their candidates: Denmark, Malta and Netherlands. Out of the 24 already nominated 7 are women:...

The European Women's Lobby (now a supporter of our campaign) organised a protest in Brussels today. You can see the photos of the event on Flickr. The Parliament also reports that a cross-party group of MEPs is urging Mary Robinson to reconsider...

Ireland has today followed Sweden and has nominated a female Commissioner, former Fianna Fail Minister and Member of the Court of Auditors Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. More about Máire can be found here. So we have 5 female nominees so far:...

Spanish daily El Mundo has an article about Gender Balanced Commission on its website, with a screenshot of the site. The article entitled "Lucha por el número de mujeres en la futura Comisión" can be read here, and the Google Translation is...

Former MEP and current Europe Minister Cecilia Malmström has been confirmed as Sweden's nominee to the European Commission. You can find out more about her here. The news was confirmed in a Tweet from @K_Lindahl of the Swedish Presidency. More from...

La Stampa's Brussels correspondent Marko Zatterin has written a blog entry in Italian entitled "Mandateci altre donne" - "Send us more women". You can read the article here, and the Google translation is...

European Voice have written an article on their website about our initiative - "Petition calls for more female commissioners". I spoke to one of their journalists and they have also received some quotes from MEPs Emilie Turunen (online chat with her later...

Austrian daily Der Standard has 3 articles about EU and gender issues for the top jobs. Here are the links to the articles: Meine Traumfrauen für die EU-Präsidentschaft (Google translation) Frauen an die EU-Spitze? Das wäre schön! (Google...

A matter of hours before the launch of this website a story appeared on the website of the Le Monde entitled "L'Union européenne manque de femmes pour occuper les fonctions stratégiques". We would like to disagree! As our research has shown there are...