Students following Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module course entitled Communicating the EU to the students through the simulation games simulated the meetings of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union over the directive “Principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms” proposed by the European Commission.

Familiarized with the draft directive of the European Commission, first, the students were divided into the political groups of the European Parliament and were asked to prepare a position paper in line with the ideology and political interest of their respective group. Following the submission of position papers, the students simulated the discussion of the reading of the European Parliament and adopted the directive without any amendments.

A week after the Parliamentary reading, the students simulated the meeting of the Council over the discussion of the directive. Assigned into the roles of the Ministers of the member-states, the students had a heated debate over the directive which was in line with real-time position of the member-states too. Chaired by French Presidency, the meeting of the Council adopted the directive with minor amendments.

The second reading of the European Parliament adopted the amendments of the Council.