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"Mr President, we can congratulate ourselves on the fact that the European Union and the European institutions, namely, the Commission, Parliament and the Council have succeeded in establishing a programme to combat violence against women. Why is this an achievement? It is an achievement because we know very well that the situation in our own countries is not easy. I would like to comment on the difficulty of combating violence against women. It is an institutional problem, as the rapporteur, Mrs Gröner, pointed out a moment ago. We do indeed lack a legal basis. The legal basis on health is not in line with the social project at stake in combating violence. This is the only comment I am going to make today. I would, however, like to associate myself with all the comments made about the budget and the late interventions on subjects of such importance.
A survey of violence against women has just been published in France. I would like to say a few words about this, as I know that in all Member States there are huge difficulties in getting this form of violence recognised. Recognising the need to combat this violence is difficult, but so is recognising the very existence of the problem. The survey revealed a very simple fact. There is a continuum of different types of violence. The various reports on DAPHNE have already highlighted this, but we have to understand that it is difficult to explain this point in our various countries.
There is a continuum ranging from domestic violence to violence that occurs in public spaces. The existence of this continuum should be acknowledged. It has been called into question in the media debates I have witnessed in my own country. The debate over the dramatic story of the death of Marie Trintignant, that appeared in the newspapers this summer, can either strengthen or weaken this notion.
My first point, therefore, is that we must explain, affirm, recognise and emphasise the fact that serious and less serious violence are part of one and the same phenomenon affecting women and children.
There has been a media debate on this subject in France. I expect that there have been similar debates in other countries. They have exposed a second problem. This is that some individuals, including some women, have asserted the existence of a kind of victim mentality among women, who tend to exaggerate their status as victims, and the need to reassess the perception of the damage and the violence done to women or to other victims.
In this regard, I think it is important to understand that we have to combat a sort of confusion in the imagination, where reality is less important than fantasy or the representation of people’s love and sex life in relation to the expression of passion. I think, therefore, that we have a serious challenge before us. We need to say, quite clearly, that there is no such thing as victimisation. We need to acknowledge that violence exists, and that it kills, every single week and in every single country."@en1
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