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An insult to and mockery of women is the only way to describe the European Parliament resolution on International Women’s Day. Any encouraging of equality of women and search for responsibility for the trivial results are wiped out by praises for ΕU policy and positive criticism of the decisions by the Lisbon and Barcelona Summits. The harsh reality experienced by women in the EU (high unemployment rate, few, poorly paid, scarce jobs, terrorism in the workplace, lack of measures giving social support to the family, increase in the retirement age, wage discrimination and so on) is the outcome of the strategic choices of the ΕU, to which the Lisbon and Barcelona Summits gave significant momentum.
The proposals to promote women as Commissioners, to create a special portfolio for women’s rights in the Commission, to give women equal representation on European Parliament ballot forms, to set up a European institute for gender issues etc. illustrate how far the temporary residents of Brussels are from the real problems and concerns of working class women. How can a partially employed, partially paid, partially retired woman, which is the model being promoted or at least accepted by those who inspire such texts, become fully involved in social and political life?
That is why we MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece abstained from the vote."@en1
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