BRUSSELS — They just wanted it to be interesting. In 2014, a group of women — journalists, lobbyists, and think-tankers — were having dinner in Brussels, bemoaning the poor quality of panel discussions they attended through their work on European Union energy policy.
Too often it was the same faces, usually male, often saying the same thing to a largely male audience.
“There was a lot of wine being drunk and a lot of complaining, and we just decided to do something,” said Marika Andersen, who was then working for a nongovernmental organization.
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Skip to October 2017. EU Panel Watch, the organization conceived of that night, has just released its third annual monitoring report.
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Vince Chadwick
Vince Chadwick is the Brussels Correspondent for Devex. He covers the EU institutions, member states, and European civil society. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before moving to Europe in 2013. He covered breaking news, the arts and public policy across the continent, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe.
