Gender Balanced Commission » Candidates

Goal achieved – 9 of the 27 nominees are women

Jon Worth — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:26:15 +0000

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 last week – 3 nominees – the 6 of the subsequent 7 nominations have all been women. So far the 9 are Jeleva, Vassiliou, Hedegaard, Danamaki, Geoghegan-Quinn, Reding, Kroes, Malmström, Ashton. Female candidates nominated so far are denoted by the small nominated logo displayed on the list of Female Commissioners.

So the aim of the campaign has been achieved!

OK, we don’t know how much our little web campaign helped. Perhaps we were pushing at an open door. But all the fuss made around the gender question and the top jobs undoubtedly played a role, and we’re happy to have done a little bit towards that aim.

So we’re up to 5… 4 (or more) to go!

Jon Worth — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:35:10 +0000

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: Geoghegan-Quinn, Malmström, Jeleva, Vassiliou and Reding. So 4 or more to go!

Cecilia Malmström confirmed as Sweden’s nominee

Jon Worth — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:04:41 +0000

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 European Voice.