Il Sole 24 ORE on Instagram: "Despite the efforts of European institutions to ensure gender equality, men still predominate in their composition In the Parliament, only 38.5% of members are women, a slight decrease from the 39.8% just before the June elections. Italy has a delegation of 76 Members of the European Parliament, comprising 47 men and 29 women. Spain has a higher percentage: of the 59 MEPs, 33 are men and 26 are women. However, in the 2019 elections, only three of the eight Spanish parties that gained representation in the Parliament were led by a woman: the Partido Popular with Dolors Montserrat; Esquerra Republicana with Diana Riba; and the PNV with Izaskun Bilbao. Sweden has the highest percentage of women overall: almost 47%. By @silmartelli *This video is part of the European Pulse project and was produced with the contribution of Ana Somavilla (El Confidencial, Spain)."

PULSE is an initiative coordinated by OBCT that has been promoting intensive journalistic cross-border collaborations in Europe since 2024. Its main aim is to help strengthen the European public sphere by reporting on and telling stories from new and diverse perspectives.

At the heart of PULSE are 10 leading national news outlets (Delfi – Lithuania, Deník Referendum – Czechia, Der Standard – Austria, EfSyn – Greece, El Confidencial – Spain, Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland, HotNews – Romania, HVG – Hungary, Il Sole 24 Ore – Italy, Mediapool – Bulgaria) and three transnational organisations, including OBCT , n-ost and Voxeurop .

Additional outlets and journalists are involved as associate partners, including EUobserver , Føljeton (Denmark), H-Alter (Croatia), Levila (Estonia), Rubryka (Ukraine), and The Journal Investigates (Ireland).

PULSE is driven by a sort of virtual transnational newsroom made up of journalists from all the publications involved. It collaboratively produces new journalistic content on European issues on a daily basis, coming in many different languages. The editorial output amounts to over a thousand publications per year, mostly in article form.

PULSE also runs 4 thematic networks open to any European journalist interested in crucial issues such as EU enlargement, relations between the EU and other global powers, the EU’s green transition, or media and the information society. These networks function as online communities and periodically publish calls for pitches.