http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/fc66eaaff4ad9103 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-union-of-equality/ A Union of Equality? - Recommendations for the Newly Elected President of the EU Commission Batura, Justine eng 2024-07-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 European Commission European Union gender and sex discrimination gender equality Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Last Thursday, Ursula von der Leyen, the new – and former – President of the EU Commission presented the ‘Political Guidelines for the next European Commission 2024-2029’, her ideas and priorities for the coming mandate. This blogpost will examine whether the Guidelines are living up to the scale of the gender-related concerns and challenges that are facing the Union, as Ursula von der Leyen promises. It identifies a shift in tone in the Commission’s pledges to promoting gender equality and outlines some proposals that the German Women Lawyers Association (djb) has advanced in order to help tackle these challenges.