A report from the European Court of Auditors exhausts the Commission on its policy of promoting equality between men and women. Parity would however promote growth, explains economist Eva Lindström.
The European Court of Auditors published on Wednesday [26 mai] a special report on the integration of the dimension of equality of the sexes in the European budget – currying the Commission. The economist Eva Lindström, born in 1957, has been representing Sweden at the Court of Auditors since March 2018, whose mission is to verify the compliance with the law of all receipts and expenditure of the European institutions.
She explains, as responsible for the report, why things are stuck and how to redress the bar.
The mirror : If your analysis is to be believed, the Commission is failing to mainstream gender equality into the EU budget. Why should the EU use its budgetary envelope as an instrument to promote this equality? ?
Eva Lindström: It is not only about justice and equal rights, but also about economic growth. The European Institute for Gender Equality has calculated that the gross domestic product per capita will increase by 6 to 9.5% by 2050 if it is possible to implement measures to ensure that the equality of the sexes is effective.
You criticize the Commission for not having kept its promises on this front. Where exactly does it get stuck?
The previous Commission, under the chairmanship of Jean-Claude Juncker, did not even have an official strategy on equality, only a vague working document. In the Commission of Ursula von der Leyen, there is all the same a strategy. But it is on the side of its implementation that it sins.
Concretely, what should the Commission change?
The problem is, she doesn’t know it well herself – because she can’t know it. In many areas, she does not have enough data on gender identity to set goals, to ensure they are met.
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Markus Becker
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