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INVITATION

The European Women Lawyers' Association (EWLA), in cooperation with

has the pleasure to invite you to a

Lunchtime debate

with Marianne Thyssen,

EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility

Commissioner Thyssen will speak about her vision of Europe and the importance of her portfolio

with regard to the situation of women.

Monday 20th of February 2017 from 12:00 to 14:00h

at the premises of the

Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the EU

47 Rue Montoyer, 1000 Brussels

Please confirm your participation to: event.nrw@lv-eu.nrw.de, before 10/02/17.

PROGRAMME

Arrival and welcome 12:00 – 12:30

Opening address, Prof. Jackie Jones, EWLA President

Keynote address, Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, followed by debate

ABOUT EWLA

The European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) is registered in Belgium as an international non-governmental, non-profit

association (Association Internationale Sans But Lucratif). It is a federation of national women lawyers associations from EU

Member States and from EFTA countries. Members of EWLA are also individual women lawyers and academics from these

countries. EWLA pursues the co-operation of European women lawyers, in order to combine their specific expertise in monitoring

law and politics seen from a fundamental rights perspective, and in particular gender equality.

For more information: http://www.ewla.org/about/about For membership: http://www.ewla.org/membership/application