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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, there is just one detail I deplore in the whole of this report, namely the term ‘forced prostitution’, used in the justification for Amendment No 1. It is a bizarre distinction between voluntary and forced prostitution with which we are persisting in this House. That is the only thing I deplore, and I hope that it will not affect organisations that work on one aspect or another of the issue of prostitution.
I think it is quite excellent to compare and evaluate the various national legislations. All I can do is mention the Swedish law prohibiting the purchase of sexual services and, of course, the Austrian legislation. The provisions of the Austrian legislation may be compared with a case in which someone goes into a restaurant and begins hitting people. The person is, of course, shown out and probably apprehended by the police, and is not welcome in the restaurant on future occasions. In the same way, someone who hits women and children in the home should not be welcome there again. Just like restaurant customers, women and children must be able to remain where they are and return to a place of safety, while the man should not be able to do so.
I also think that an information campaign directed at our legal bodies is a very good idea. In the last six months, it has emerged in Sweden that, despite an intensive debate, rape victims are treated in an incredibly insulting way. I can make another comparison: that with a man in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex watch who is walking around drunk in the middle of the night. He is never asked what he is doing out at that time or why he is intoxicated. Nor does anyone suggest that he might be inviting crime. That is, however, what happens in the case of women who are raped.
Finally, I would again address the issue of the budget. That is precisely what everyone has talked about. I believe that the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities is sometimes accused of being naive and ill at ease on budget issues, but it is our task here to deal with such issues. We are not only talking about enlargement of the EU, but also about the tasks for the DAPHNE Programmes."@en1
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