Not respecting the principle of parity in the European Commission, the beacon of democracy for the rest of the world, cannot be the way forward in the EU. It would be ‘inconsistent’ for the Parliament to support such a situation, the head of the Parliament’s gender equality committee told Euronews in an interview. In July, MEPs elected Lina Gálvez, a historian and politician specialising in feminist economics, to head the EU parliament’s gender equality committee for the next two and a half years — and the stakes are already high. From EU capitals challenging Commission President Ursula von de…