“Don’t believe that at every moment of our lives we should compare ourselves to each other and have at least the same post, at least the same salary as the other,” Hungarian Family Minister Katalin Novák said about women in a video posted on social media on Monday.
While it is hard to define what makes a successful woman, it is easier to look at what she does not have to believe, “for example that we women should constantly compete with men,” she said, adding that women are not only strong enough to bear their own burden, but “women have been given so much strength that we are able to take on the burdens of others.”
COPENHAGEN
Arctic security could be destabilised by power rivalry between US, Russia, China. The growing interests and presence of Russia, China and the US in the Arctic have a destabilising effect on the region’s security, according to the annual risk assessment conducted by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS). Read more.
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BERLIN
CDU party conference to go fully digital. After delays and debates around the format, the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party will meet entirely virtually to decide on a new leader in mid-January, following a formal decision from the party’s executive committee on Monday. Read more.
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PARIS