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". – I welcome the recognition in Parliament that although the European Women's Lobby is recognised as a valuable lobby group on behalf of certain women's positions, there are other women's lobby groups that deserve and must receive support, both financially and politically, at a European level.
No one in the European Parliament would support discrimination or violence against women; we must remember that to deny women a voice is a form of violence against them.
The Budget Committee ruled again this year that this was a monopoly situation, regarding this fund under A-3037, which is unacceptable within the European Union, and the budget line should be opened up to other women’s groups.
As things stand the EWL is, and remains, the sole recipient from this budget line for women’s groups. Other women’s organisations representing many thousands of European women are thus ineligible for funding and left unrepresented.
Democracy and subsidiarity are not served by the EWL having a monopoly and control on all of the woman's budget line. In the interest of giving fair and equal expression to the voices of European women there must be an end to monopoly funding
It is the duty of every elected representative to ensure that the voice of those who are voiceless is clearly heard. If the diverse voices of the women of Europe are to be heard, this monopoly funding situation must end.
We must dedicate ourselves to upholding the European ideals of inclusiveness and democracy and resist the pressure of those groups that wish to maintain an anti-European monopolistic control."@en1
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