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gunther-21Three parliamentary committees (Budget, Budgetary Affairs and Legal Affairs) will quiz Commissioner Günther Oettinger about his new portfolio for Budget and Human Resources, which Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has asked him to take over from former commissioner Kristalina Georgieva.

Oettinger was caught (26 October 2016) making explicitly or implicitly discriminatory remarks in respect of Chinese, women and LGBTIs at an event in Hamburg. As his future portfolio will include Human Resources, MEPs asked him in a written question, how he was going to give a boost to diversity in respect of human resources, in particular relating to ethnic minorities, women and LGBTI's and regain his credibility in this respect?

Oettinger wrote that he very much regretted the words used during my speech, but it was not his intention to hurt people and that he fully believed in diversity as a strength and as a core value at the heart of the European project.

By way of penance, Oettinger will present a Communication on Diversity and Inclusion in the coming months. The Communication will set out the main actions the European Commission intends to implement to foster diversity and inclusion amongst its staff up to the year 2019.

After the meeting, the co-ordinators of the committees for Budgets, Budgetary Control and Legal Affairs will meet separately in camera for an assessment.  A joint evaluation letter will be submitted to the Conference of Presidents (European Parliament President and political group leaders), which will discuss the matter on 12 January.
The written questions and Oettinger’s replies are here.
The meeting will take place in Brussels in the Paul-Henri Spaak building (PHS), room 3C50, on Monday, 9 January from 18-20h30.

The exchange of views will be webstreamed.

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