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We abstained from voting on the Ghilardotti report, which argued in favour of gender budgeting, in other words public budgets taking into account the ‘gender perspective’ and thus supposedly establishing a little more equality between men and women. The intention is good, but the means envisaged are not, particularly if one looks at them in the context of the broad economic orientations of the Member States of the European Union which, contrary to what the author of the report claims, are not reducing inequalities in Europe but are, on the contrary, helping to make them worse.
Members of the European Parliament, sitting in their ivory tower, can imagine what they want to imagine. The reality is very different. By giving the major industrial and financial groups an increasingly free hand, by destroying public services or attacking social protection, the Member States of the European Union are not reducing inequalities: they are entrenching them even deeper.
By refusing to put a stop to dismissals, by favouring moderation in wage claims, and by reducing the amount of pensions, their action is aggravating the misfortunes suffered by women, who are more often than men the victims of unemployment, insecurity and forced part-time working."@en1
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"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Rule 137 (1) of the Rules of Procedure)."1
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