'Eliminating Gender Stereotypes in the EU' is the innocuous title of a report that sounds like the sort of thing few would object to, but as Swedish Pirate MEP, Christian Engstrom notes, the devil is in the details.

There is a lot of concern over how women are portrayed, especially in advertising and the 'size zero' models favoured by many leading names, but deep in the report is Article 17, which reads:

17. Calls on the EU and its Member States to take concrete actio...