About me

About me

Claudette Abela Baldacchino
Deputy Mayor of Qrendi
Member of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
Vice President Socialist Group of the Congress for Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CLARE)

The International Field
I have been a member of the Committee of the Regions (COR) since 2006. Has been appointed as rapporteur for the CoR on behalf of the Party of Eureopan Socialist Group in the CoR, member of the InterGroup for the Mediterranean.

I have also been been entrusted by the Party of the European Socialist's Group within the CoR as one of the coordinators for the PES Manifesto for the European Parliament Elections to be held in June 2009.

In 2008 I was elected Vice President of the Socialist Group in Congress for Local and Regional Authorities in the Council of Europe. I was also appointed rapporteur for the Congress for Local and Regional Authorities.

The Local Field
Vice President of the Local Councils Association and representative of the South East Region. Deputy Mayor of the Qrendi Local Council on the Malta Labour Party List.

Profession
A journalist by profession. Has produced and hosted news bulletins for radio and television since 1992 with One Productions a local TV media station owned by the Malta Labour Party.

Has also produced, presented and hosted a local production on Local Government issues covering both national and international news with regards to local and regional authorities in the European Union and across Europe in general.


Read BA (Hons) Social Administration and Diploma in Social Studies (Women and Development) at the University of Malta.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006 - 2010

The opinion points out that 'the attainment of the Lisbon objectives requires the contribution of both sexes, not least women. This includes their participation in the labour market, greater family responsibility to be assumed by men, and the possibility for both men and women to reconcile family and work commitments, which is likely to have a decisive impact on the future demographic development in the EU'.Moreover, the opinion underlines that 'to achieve genuine gender equality, the problem of under-representation of women in political and economic decision making must be tackled. Local and regional authorities have a key role to play here because gender equality in participation in politics and in economic life should be built from the bottom up. In this context, the CoR suggests that the idea of quota systems should be discussed at the different levels of governance. However quotas by themselves cannot solve the problem of inequality and discrimination, but they may be one element of a broader and integrated strategy to break up existing structures which exclude women from decision making at the moment'.

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