GENDER EQUALITY : MEPS BLAST COMMISSION'S LACK OF LEGISLATIVE ACTION.

• Position: Members of European Parliament - Brief article

The European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights called on the European Commission, on 24 January, to give its "road map for equality between women and men" a concrete dimension. Gender equality policy must be treated by the Commission "as an indispensable requirement," states the own-initiative report by Amalia Sartori (EPP-ED, Italy). The report regrets that the road map, presented in March 2006, does not contain a single legislative proposal.

The EP committee calls for national...