Former EWL Board member takes seat in European Parliament
[Brussels, 12 May 2011] Mojca Kleva, a former member of the EWL Board of Administration, representing the Women’s Lobby Slovenia (Ženski lobi Slovenije), started her job as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) on 9 May 2011. Ms Kleva came second on the list in the 2009 European elections, and is now replacing Zoran Thaler (S&D), a Slovenian MEP who resigned in March. Ms Kleva is a member of the Regional Development Committee and will also be a substitute in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM Committee).
Mojca Kleva was part of the EWL delegation to the 2008 United Nations Commission of the Status and Women, accompanying Myria Vassiliadou (EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator and former Secretary General of the EWL) and Cécile Gréboval, current EWL Secretary General.
