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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, I think we all supported the international women’s days observed in our respective countries. What has emerged from those days is still quite a bitter taste: we are still victims of inequality and we are still being treated as a minority group, when we represent more than half of the human race. It is with a great deal of regret that I have to observe that this evening, the problem of women appears once again to interest only women, and I hope that tomorrow there will be more of us to stand up and fight against that, as some men fought today, complaining that some very important items, in particular pensions, were being dealt with only at the end of the evening.
At European Union level, it has to be said that the principle of gender equality is not yet being applied. Mrs Lalumière’s report, which looks at the situation in our institution, says quite clearly that this is the case and makes specific proposals. It is true that we need to deal firmly with this problem and stop hiding behind socio-economic and socio-cultural considerations. We have said that we want to be a fairer and more equal society.
Thank you, Mrs Gröner, for this excellent report, because, for the years to come it will provide an incomparable tool for developing the integrated and transversal approach in our policies, our actions and our budgets. Why? Quite simply because we feel that this integrated approach will lead to a fairer, more democratic society, and that taking into account the differences between men and women will enable us to take better advantage of human resources. We must take an active and effective approach, whether to structures, information policies, the evaluation of our actions, or the collection of statistics. Might I point out that, in less than a year, the Committee on Women’s Rights will be twenty years old? Twenty years is an important milestone, and I hope that we will be able to make a more than positive assessment of all the work that has been done."@en1
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