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Helena Dalli

COMMISSIONER (2019-2024)  

  • Helena Dalli
    Equality

    Email: cab-dalli-contactatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (cab-dalli-contact[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)

    Address: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200, 1049 Brussels, Belgium

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Responsibilities

  • Strengthening Europe’s commitment to inclusion and equality in all of its senses, irrespective of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
  • Leading the fight against discrimination and developing EU anti-discrimination legislation.
  • Leading on EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
  • Developing a European Gender Strategy to address barriers for women, including gender mainstreaming and equality at work with binding pay transparency.
  • Ensuring the full implementation of the Work-Life Balance Directive.
  • Progressing on the Women on Boards Directive with Member States and advancing the empowerment of women and girls.
  • Stepping up the EU's response to gender-based violence.
  • Exploring the addition of 'violence against women' to the list of EU crimes and supporting EU accession to the Istanbul Convention.

Mission letter

  • 1 DECEMBER 2019
President von der Leyen's mission letter to Helena Dalli

 

European Parliament hearings

  • 1 DECEMBER 2019
Helena Dalli's answers to the European Parliament questionnaire

Team

Helena Dalli's team supports her in her daily work

My team

Media Gallery

Calendar

Ms. Helena Dalli delivers an opening speech during the side event on “G7 Gender Equality Ministers and Civil Society Dialogue”, as part of the G& Ministerial Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Matera, Italy.

Transparency

As part of the Commission’s commitment to transparency, Commissioners and their members of Cabinet publish information on meetings held with organisations or self-employed individuals.

In line with the Commission's Code of Conduct for Members of the Commission, each Commissioner publishes a Declaration of Interests.

signed, authentic version is published at the bottom of this page.

machine-readable version of all Declarations is also published. This is in line with the requirements of the Code of Conduct.

The Declarations of Interests follow the requirements set out in Article 3 and in Annex 1 of the new Code of Conduct for Commissioners.

Biography

  1. 2019 - present
    European Commissioner for Equality
  2. 1996-2019
    Member of Parliament, Malta
  3. 2017-2019
    Minister for European Affairs and Equality
  4. 2013-2017
    Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties
  5. 1998-2013
    Opposition Shadow Minister for public administration, equality, public broadcasting and national investments
  6. 1996-1998
    Parliamentary Secretary for Women's Rights in the Office of Prime Minister
  • 1 DECEMBER 2019
Helena Dalli's biography

 

Declaration of interests

  • 31 JANUARY 2024
Declaration of interests - Helena Dalli