TALKING GENDER IN THE EU is a 3-part lecture series covering gender politics in Slovenia, the European Union and Poland. 

 Slipping off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union's External Relations in Times of Crisis - Dr. Natalie Welfens, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hertie School Berlin, Centre for Fundamental Rights 

The European Union has faced and continues to face several crises, including the financial crisis, Brexit, a migration and climate crisis, and lately the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and its consequences. At the same time, the EU has promised to mainstream gender in all external policies, and understands itself to be a normative power and gender actor in world politics. Does the EU live up to this normative commitment in times of multiple external crises? Can crises even offer a window of opportunity for gender considerations, as some feminist work suggests? In this talk Natalie Welfens analyzes how the European Union’s identification of crisis and policy responses to crisis in different external policy fields are gendered and have gendered effects.