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"Mr President, this is a very important issue because this is discrimination which faces all women, not only in the EU, but across the world. We therefore welcome this report as its findings are indeed serious. It shows, as the rapporteur said, that there is a 20-25% difference between male and female earnings on average in the European Union and that in some Member States the situation is much worse. This report is a very practical one, putting forward measures which actually suggest very concrete things which can be done to address this very difficult issue. So we support the measures set out in the report and call for this action to be taken sooner rather than later, because this is discrimination that women have faced for a very long time. We have hundreds of years of discrimination to address and we need to get on with doing that. I certainly support all calls for this to become a priority for the EU and for the Commission.
I would particularly like to draw attention to the fact that there are three Member States mentioned in the report in which the situation is significantly worse, worse enough for them to be singled out in the report. Those Member States therefore have a special responsibility to take action and to ensure that they get themselves up to the EU average as quickly as possible.
There are two other things in the report I would like to highlight. First of all awareness campaigns: these are something that Member States could actually do without too much difficulty. They will not address the actual issues in the workplace, but it is something which governments can do relatively easily. The other thing which the report mentions, which I would like to draw attention to, is that governments themselves can provide a model, and I therefore call on Member State governments to look at their own employment policies and identify how they might become better employers themselves."@en1
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