Comments on: Female Commissioners

By: zanlaura

zanlaura — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:32:49 +0000

Great job people! I’ve been happy to give my little support!
Laura

By: Goal achieved – 9 of the 27 nominees are women by Gender Balanced Commission

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:27:56 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: Faut-il des femmes à la tête de l’UE ? Au-delà des statistiques, créons une Europe démocratique | European Alternatives

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:57:41 +0000

[...] ce qu’on pensé quelques bloggeurs avertis en lançant la campagne en ligne : For a gender balanced commission ! Le blog propose des noms de ‘femmes compétentes’ dans une approche non partisane. Et la liste [...]

By: Benjamin Dauth

Benjamin Dauth — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:38:19 +0000

Germany: Anyone but Oettinger would send the new government in a crisis. He just has to leave the country. only chance here would be to block a “male” commission by vote. Once there “arises a situation” Germoney likes to set even good examples.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:09:25 +0000

@ Miriam Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger could be moved to Berlin to Brussels, this happened to many (wo)men before: they were national ministers before being nominated as Commissioners

By: Sonsoles Rosende

Sonsoles Rosende — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:05:03 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_D%C3%ADez

Rosa Diez
Rosa Díez González (born May 27, 1952 in Güeñes, Biscay, Spain) is a Spanish politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament for the PSOE (“Partido Socialista Obrero Español” or Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), integrated in the Party of European Socialists.

In 2007 she gave up her seat and left the PSOE due to strong disagreement on what she perceived to be the Socialists’ drift on individual liberties, ETA, and more. Subsequently she founded a new political party, UPyD (“Unión, Progreso y Democracia” or Union, Progress and Democracy), based on an already existing movement. In 2008, she was elected to the Congress of Deputies (Spain) representing Madrid district.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:33:53 +0000

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger from Germany is now a Minister in Germany itself and can therefore not become a Comissioner in Brussels…

By: Dániel Fehér

Dániel Fehér — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:55:29 +0000

Hungary: On the shortlist of the ruling socialist party, 2 out of 5 candidates were actually women: MEP Edit Herczog (Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee 2004-09, Budget Committee 2009-, SME working group, Lisbon Strategy working group) and Deputy Defense Secretary Ágnes Vadai.

Nevertheless, being very active party politicians, none of them would have been really an ideal choice, and the same goes for Göncz and Gurmai, although I respect both of them. The socialist party is running a minority government and is expected to be swept out of power big time next spring, they’re fighting for survival (got 17,4% at the EP elections this June). Therefore, public opinion and opposition parties would not have accepted a party politician as candidate, which would have weakened Hungary’s chances to get an influential portfolio (as Kovács’s nomination did in 2004).

Hard to think of female candidates therefore who are 1. qualified, 2. not party politicians but close enough to the socialists.

By: Dániel Fehér

Dániel Fehér — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:42:02 +0000

Germany: Ursula von der Leyen, German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth actually wanted to be nominated and would have been a good choice in every respect. Unfortunately, Merkel did not want her to leave as she had no substitute for her in the cabinet. The man she eventually nominated was obviously easier to replace

Unfortunately esp. big member states have no interest in a strong Commission, so they avoid sending heavyweights (men or women) to Brussels…

By: Tom FitzGerald

Tom FitzGerald — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:28:57 +0000

Geoghegan- Quinn is not a bad choice… she has shown some bottle in the past and was couragous in implementation of socially enlightened policies, which, comming from a conservative political party took some doing!

In broad terms while not condoning the appointment of persons on the basis of gender a little affermative action would be appropriate when you see that sea of grey men in grey suits in Commission “family”photographs!

Vive la guere et la difference!

Tom FitzGerald
Citizen of the EU