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“It is a common occurrence that gender issues are marginalised within the European political sphere.” […]

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“It is a common occurrence that gender issues are marginalised within the European political sphere.” said FEPS Secretary General Ernst Stetter in the foreword of this new book which gathered the contributions of the third Transatlantic Gender Dialogue, part of the well-established and successful research programme on progressive feminism.

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Read the contribution of FEPS Policy Advisor, Judit Tánczos who gives an overview about the main issues of the seminar and relaunches the cycle for the fifth transatlantic gender dialogue.

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