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Only France, Italy and Belgium have clearly shown support in favour of introducing mandatory quotas in the European Union to increase the number of women on boards of listed European companies during the current debate; held this week between Employment Ministers of the twenty members focused on this issue.

In contrast, the ministers of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Czech Republic, Cyprus and Malta have rejected the introduction of a quota system binding in the EU in favour of women.

Germany and Denmark have recognized that they do not yet have a definitive position on this issue; this was confirmed by sources of the EU executive.

APA believes that European businesses fail in their responsibility to foster genuine equality in the Boardroom and sight the fact, published earlier, that the ratio of women directors on the Board of Chinese companies is higher than that of UK and the EU average. The UK has 9% fewer women directors than China. Its time we came up caught up!

APA