The European Parliament gave the go-ahead to the newly proposed EU gender institute on Tuesday (14 March).
The institute is supposed to gather and analyse information about gender-related issues - such as equality of men and women in the labour market or in politics - and distribute it to other EU institutions.
Slovenia, Slovakia and Lithuania are now preparing to step up their lobbying to be host to the institute which will have an annual budget of around €8 million.
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