European Women's Lobby
EWL
Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is the largest alliance of women’s non-governmental associations in the European Union with a steadily increasing membership.
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Sirpa Pietikäinen (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Nov 2025 · Gender equality
Meeting with Marc Botenga (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Sept 2025 · Situation of the Women and Children in Gaza
Response to Union of Equality: Anti-racism Strategy 2026-2030
8 Jul 2025
Meeting with Marko Vešligaj (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
5 Mar 2025 · Gender Equality Strategy 2025-2029
Meeting with Valérie Devaux (Member of the European Parliament)
14 Jan 2025 · Droits des femmes
Meeting with Chloé Ridel (Member of the European Parliament)
6 Nov 2024 · Women's rights - Meeting with French network member
Meeting with Inês Melo Sampaio (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)
24 Oct 2024 · Meeting with Portuguese Platform for Women’s Rights (PpDM) representatives to present the work being developed, the “Women in Power @ the EU” project, and their future activities
Meeting with Saskia Bricmont (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
22 Oct 2024 · Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
Meeting with Gordan Bosanac (Member of the European Parliament)
18 Oct 2024 · EU legal obligations for gender equality
Meeting with Catarina Martins (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Oct 2024 · sexual and reproductive rights
Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
17 Oct 2024 · EU Budget 2025
Meeting with Karlo Ressler (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Oct 2024 · Gender Balanced Budgeting
Meeting with Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus (Member of the European Parliament) and Women Against Violence Europe Network
16 Oct 2024 · Commissioners-designate hearings and priorities in the FEMM Committee
Meeting with Evin Incir (Member of the European Parliament)
1 Oct 2024 · Gender based violence
Meeting with Carolina Morace (Member of the European Parliament) and EDGE Foundation
25 Sept 2024 · Introductory Meeting
Meeting with Marc Angel (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Sept 2024 · women's rights
Meeting with Maria Noichl (Member of the European Parliament)
25 Sept 2024 · State of Gender Equality EU
Meeting with Lina Gálvez (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)
23 Sept 2024 · European Womens Rights and Gender Equality
Meeting with Dan Barna (Member of the European Parliament)
11 Sept 2024 · Gender Equality Priorities in the European Union
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and
11 Sept 2024 · Meeting to discuss women's rights and gender equality.
Meeting with Martine Kemp (Member of the European Parliament)
13 Feb 2024 · #HerNetHerRight for the EU (HNHR4EU) training
Meeting with Evin Incir (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
19 Jan 2024 · Directive violence against woman
Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
9 Dec 2023 · Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence
Meeting with Maria da Graça Carvalho (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
8 Nov 2023 · Rights, support and protection of victims of crime
Meeting with Alice Kuhnke (Member of the European Parliament) and COALITION POUR L'ABOLITION DE LA PROSTITUTION
12 Sept 2023 · Seminar: testimonies from survivors of prostitution
Meeting with Manon Aubry (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Sept 2023 · Feminism
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
5 Sept 2023 · Womens rights
Meeting with Malin Björk (Member of the European Parliament) and European Network of Migrant Women
13 Jul 2023 · Violence against women, trafficking, prostitution
Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Jul 2023 · Violences faites aux femmes
Meeting with Lina Gálvez (Member of the European Parliament)
12 Jul 2023 · Directive Violence against Women
Meeting with Sylvie Brunet (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)
11 Jul 2023 · Violences faites aux femmes et violence domestique
Meeting with Ilana Cicurel (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
6 Jun 2023 · Implementation of the CERV programme - Meeting with the Programme Office and Coordinator of the European Women's Lobby
Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
1 Jun 2023 · Prostitution
Meeting with Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Eurochild AISBL
20 Apr 2023 · Cross-border recognition of Parenthood
Meeting with Patricia Reilly (Cabinet of Commissioner Mairead Mcguinness)
29 Mar 2023 · Role of women in securing peace in Northern Ireland, and the 50th anniversary of the National Women’s Council of Ireland
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
7 Feb 2023 · Meeting on Violence Against Women Directive progress
Meeting with Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
23 Jan 2023 · Violences faites aux femmes
Meeting with Carina Ohlsson (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
17 Jan 2023 · Möte med European Women's Lobby om sexuella trakasserier i EU och utvärdering av MeToo
Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
12 Jan 2023 · Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence
Meeting with Maria Walsh (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)
7 Dec 2022 · Pay Transparency
Meeting with Delara Burkhardt (Member of the European Parliament)
9 Nov 2022 · Climate Policy
Meeting with Frances Fitzgerald (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and
27 Oct 2022 · Proposal for a Directive on combatting violence against women and domestic violence
Response to Commission Recommendation on the prevention of harmful practices against women and girls
31 May 2022
Meeting with Alice Kuhnke (Member of the European Parliament) and
19 Apr 2022 · Roundtable: Gender-based Violence
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner) and
6 Apr 2022 · Cabinet Dalli invited Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to discuss concerns equality and non-discrimination CSOs are raising regarding the situation of people fleeing from the Ukraine
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
31 Mar 2022 · Handover pregnancy Ms Fourcans to Ms Vardaramatou
Meeting with Cyrus Engerer (Member of the European Parliament)
9 Dec 2021 · Women's Rights
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
30 Nov 2021 · Commissioner Dalli held a meeting with the new EWL Secretary General Konstantina Vardaramatou who was appointed in October 2021. (https://twitter.com/helenadalli/status/1465781520417886213?s=20)
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
22 Nov 2021 · Meeting with a panel of survivors of prostitution from SPACE International
Meeting with Damian Boeselager (Member of the European Parliament)
17 Nov 2021 · Electoral law reform
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
9 Nov 2021 · Online Istanbul Convention event
Meeting with Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet of Vice-President Věra Jourová)
15 Oct 2021 · Gender equality files
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
13 Oct 2021 · Ms Helena Dalli holds a meeting via videoconference with the European Women’s Lobby
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
5 Oct 2021 · Preparation of meeting with Commissioner priorities for EWL
Meeting with Maria Luisa Cabral (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)
1 Jun 2021 · The use of the term “gender”
Meeting with Gosia Pearson (Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson), Monika Maglione (Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson)
5 Feb 2021 · Trafficking in human beings
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
2 Oct 2020 · Istanbul Convention discussion
Meeting with Margrethe Vestager (Executive Vice-President) and
21 Sept 2020 · Discussion on gender mainstreaming of all EC policies.
Response to Communication to the Institutions - A New Pact on Asylum and Migration
27 Aug 2020
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
7 Jul 2020 · Istanbul Convention; combating violence against women/gender based violence.
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
14 May 2020 · EWL’s call to action "Women and Girls must not pay the price of Coronavirus"; gender sensitive responses
Meeting with Lesia Radelicki (Cabinet of Commissioner Helena Dalli)
14 May 2020 · Exchange of views on EWL’s call to action "Women and Girls must not pay the price of Coronavirus"
Meeting with Helena Dalli (Commissioner)
6 Feb 2020 · Gender Equality; Equality
Meeting with Andrea Almeida Cordero (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)
24 May 2018 · women in politics
Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and
7 Mar 2018 · Discussion of gender equality and the Future of Europe
Meeting with Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
13 Feb 2018 · Women's rights
Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)
3 Aug 2017 · meeting with EWL on colloquium 2017
Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
28 Feb 2017 · diversity & inclusion
Meeting with Raquel Lucas (Cabinet of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis)
3 May 2016 · Dialogue with civil society organisations to discuss European Semester matters, including the 2016 CSRs on social policy.
Meeting with Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
18 Apr 2016 · Migrant situation
Meeting with Monika Ladmanova (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)
10 Sept 2015 · New initiative on work balance
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
13 Jul 2015 · Women on Panels
Meeting with Neven Mimica (Commissioner) and
29 May 2015 · Commissioner to deliver speech that will focus mainly on gender equality and women empowerment from the development policy perspective.
Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)
20 May 2015 · Women in Science
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and
16 Feb 2015 · Equal Treatment Directive
Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and
15 Jan 2015 · Better regulation and European affairs in general
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner) and
9 Jan 2015 · Roundtable with NGOs on fundamental rights and non-discrimination
Meeting with Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President) and
9 Jan 2015 · Roundtable with NGO's on fundamental rights
Meeting with Věra Jourová (Commissioner)
18 Dec 2014 · Gender equality