Category Archives: Anna Diamantopoulou

Anna Diamantopoulou: Sex Shouldn’t BeTaken Into Account in Insurance

In August controversial European social affairs commissioner managed to raise one of her patented controversies by telling the BBC that insurance companies should be barred from using sex as a factor in setting insurance premiums and benefits.

Women tend to pay more for insurance when they are young, for example, because of higher costs associated […]

EU Proposal to Ban Sexual Stereotypes in Media Gets Chilly Reception

This month the European Union had a controversy on its hands when the Financial Times got hold of a secret 26-page draft directive being prepared under the auspices of the European Commission’s Social Affairs Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou.

Article 4 of the draft proposed sweeping censorship of the media in order to banish any and all […]