Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-01-12-Speech-3-036"
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"Mr President, I would like to wish Prime Minister Juncker a positive and productive presidency and am very pleased to see a small, successful, independent country leading the European Union. Luxembourg is one of the six Member States that is smaller than my own country, Wales, and an example of what an independent Wales could achieve.
The priorities paper tries to maintain the essential balance between economic, social and environmental policies. I would like to mention the continuing campaign against discrimination, in the hope that real progress will be made on the European Gender Institute and on the recast equality directive. There is no better example of the failure of policies on equality than the pay gap between men and women. Thirty years after legislation was passed on this issue, a report published this week by the GMB trade union in the UK shows that, in Anglesey in my constituency, full-time pay for women is as low as 59% of that for men. This is a scandal which must be addressed and I hope equality issues will be given priority."@en1
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member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3,3
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