High cost of EU gender gap - EUbusiness Week newsletter 760 - EUbusiness.com

EUbusiness Week 760 top stories: EU on track for climate change talks: finance ministers; Brussels imposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel; EU needs better spending to regain citizens’ trust; MEPs call for ivory trade ban and EU penalties; Ministers agree Baltic fish quotas; EU unemployment rate lowest since 2009: report

Publisher’s Note

Europe continues to suffer from a gender employment gap, and this has a high cost. A new report from Eurofound finds that the total cost of a lower female employment rate is EUR 370 billion per year – around 2.8 per cent of the EU’s GDP.

More women are in jobs, almost 46% of the active EU labour market population. But women’s employment and participation rates are lower than those of men in almost all EU Member States. The cost of a woman’s exclusion from employment throughout her working life can be high. The broader message is that the gender employment gap has an economic and social cost that Europe cannot afford.
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Regards,

Nick Prag
Publisher, EUbusiness

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1. EU on track for climate change talks: finance ministers

Finance ministers confirmed the EU mandate for the upcoming Marrakesh conference Tuesday, agreeing to provide public finance to tackle the causes and impacts of climate change.
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2. Brussels imposes anti-dumping duties on Chinese steel

In a swift reaction to what it claims is unfair competition, the Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties on imports of hot-rolled flat steel and heavy plates of steel from China.
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3. EU needs better spending to regain citizens’ trust

The new president of the EU’s Court of Auditors has called on the EU to improve its accounts by delivering better value for money and more transparency, and ensure its financial rules are correctly applied.
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4. MEPs call for ivory trade ban and EU penalties

The European Parliament’s environment committee called Thursday for a full and immediate EU-wide ban on ivory and rhinoceros horn trade, and common sanctions at EU level against wildlife trafficking.
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5. Ministers agree Baltic fish quotas

Fisheries ministers agreed next year’s quotas for the ten commercially most important fish stocks in the Baltic Sea Monday, paving the way for talks for the deep sea and North Sea later this year.
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6. EU unemployment rate lowest since 2009: report

Employment in the EU has increased in almost all Member States, according to the autumn edition of the Commission’s Employment and Social Development Quarterly Review.
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EUROPEAN LAW

Reselling software: the owner of a computer program with an unlimited user licence is entitled to resell the original, the EU’s top court ruled on Wednesday, but not a back-up copy if the original is not available.
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Inside the EU Institutions

Council Watch

Uniform European travel document – Carcinogens or mutagens at work – Better working conditions for fishermen – Council conclusions on climate change – Council conclusions on tax transparency – Eurogroup statement on Greece – rules to guarantee legal aid in criminal proceedings – Baltic Sea catch limits for 2017
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Commission Watch

Legal aid in criminal proceedings – Mobility Partnership with Belarus – EU accounts – state support for ports and airports – new knowledge sources for Europe’s cities – EU-Tunisia visa facilitation – Security Union – House prices – Industrial production – EU-Egypt cooperation on socio-economic development – Partnership Agreement EU-Southern African Development Community – Air passenger transport in the EU
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Parliament Watch

Ivory trade ban and EU penalties – Gas: energy emergency supply links between EU countries – Charlemagne Youth Prize winners – Plant health: deal to fight influx of pests to the EU – CETA trade agreement debate – funds for jobs and youth – Sakharov Prize 2016 finalists – Lux Prize – funding for projects in Greece and Cyprus
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EU diary

17 Oct: European Parliament Committee Meetings
17 Oct: European Consumer Summit 2016
17-18 Oct: eSkills for jobs 2016
17 Oct: Foreign Affairs Council
17-18 Oct: Energy investment and regulation conference
17 Oct: Environment Council
18-19 Oct: Annual EU innovation procurement event
20 Oct: Startup EU-India Summit 2016
20-21 Oct: European Council
The Week Ahead
Long-term diary