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"Madam President, a year and a half ago, Spain was in the vanguard of Europe in terms of combating male violence against women, when it approved an integrated law against such violence. Nevertheless, so far this year 51 people have been killed as a result of this scourge, of this kind of violence. We cannot therefore feel satisfied, naturally.
The law was necessary, and that is what we said, but, as we can see, unfortunately a law is not enough. The essence of this kind of violence is deeply rooted in people’s mindsets and in the cultures that suffer from those mindsets, and one year, or one piece of paper, will not be enough to change that.
Daphne, the objective of which is to combat violence of all kinds, is therefore a fundamental instrument, and we cannot and must not give up on it. Many forms of violence against women need to be combated: people trafficking, physical and psychological abuse, practices such as clitoral circumcision or the feminisation of poverty, and many others. All of them require urgent action and resources. They will never be sufficient, however, regardless of how many of them there are or appear to be.
We must therefore once again call upon the governments to emerge from their European lethargy and to understand that it is not possible to do more things with less money and that, with regard to violence in general and male violence against women in particular, we cannot demand great actions unless we also provide the means and resources needed to carry them out.
To provide Daphne with resources and with political importance is not a purely bureaucratic process. Let us not forget that its ultimate objective is to save lives. Though, like the Spanish law against gender violence, it is not sufficient, it is nevertheless essential."@en1
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