Expert Meeting on Gender Equality in the enlarged European Union

The aim of the Expert Meeting is to examine the possibilities, chances and obstacles for the future gender equality policy on the European Union level. The discussion in this interdisciplinary and transnational forum will focus on the implementation of the EU’s gender equality regulations, on independent national policies, on the history and role of the women’s (rights) movement and the current situation of women, especially in the new member countries Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Bulgaria, but also in the “old” member states like Germany and France and also Austria.

The Expert Meeting forms part of a current research project on gender equality in the enlarged European Union, carried out between July 2006 and September 2007 as a cooperation between Social Change and the Institute of East-European History.