The European Commission is planning to present a report...[on the] pay gap between men and women in the EU...[T]he biggest differences - 20 to 25 percent - in salaries paid to male and female workers have been recorded in Cyprus, Slovakia, Estonia, Germany and the UK...[I]n the private sector, the gender pay gap clocks in at 25 percent, according to a separate new independent study...The UK features as the country with the biggest differences in private sector salaries of 30 percent, while companies in Slovenia rank as the least gender discriminatory with a pay gap of 11 percent.