Author: Euronews

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been lauding itself for having achieved full gender parity for the time in history. But is that the reality? ADVERTISEMENTWith less than four months before the much-anticipated event, the International Olympic Committee emphasises the event will be the first gender-equal one in history. One of the hashtags used in the promotional material for the 2024 Paris Summer Games is #GenderEqualOlympics. These upcoming Olympic Games will indeed have a 50 per cent participation rate between men and women. However, in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, 48.8 per cent of participants were women – very close to achieving full parity. But…

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German broadcaster ProSiebensat.1 has rejected a bid put forward by MFE-MediaForEurope to split up the company. ADVERTISEMENTOn Wednesday, it was reported by Reuters that ProSiebensat.1 called on its shareholders to vote down its top investors’ proposals at the annual general meeting next month.MFE, which operates commercial TV businesses in Italy and Spain, is controlled by the family of the late former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.The company is aiming to spin off ProSieben’s e-commerce and dating assets from the group’s core TV operations, Reuters said.”In the opinion of the executive board and the supervisory board, a split-up … lies in the unique…

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