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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-09-27"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equality between women and men in the EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"ro"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070927.4.4-063"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-09-27-Speech-4-0642
lpv:speaker	lp:Monica Maria Iacob-ridzi2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partidul Democrat (2007-01-01--2007-12-09)3 member; EPP-ED (2007-01-01--2007-12-09)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-15--2007-12-09)3 substitute; EMPL (2007-01-31--2007-12-09)3 substitute; CONT (2007-02-09--2007-12-09)3 member; BUDG (2007-01-31--2007-12-09)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2007-03-15--2007-12-09)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe the time has come for the European Union to properly finance the noble goals described by the Treaty, such as combating gender discrimination or achieving equal pay for women and men. The report we debate on presents one of the main opportunities open to gender equality by means of the European Union budget. It consists of structural and cohesion funds, a level at which one must see a facilitation of women's access to European resources. According to the data we possess, following the latest European Union enlargement, women have had comparatively less to gain from the regional and cohesion policy funds, and this should be corrected. Nevertheless, it is not enough to analyze only the regional and cohesion policy funds, although their weight in the Union’s budget – almost 36% – forces us to fight in order for them to reach as many women as possible. We also need to see what the latest developments in the traditional gender policy programmes of the European Union are, such as PROGRESS, Daphne or EQUAL. Although, this year, both the PROGRESS programme, on the whole, and section 5, devoted to gender equality, benefit from additional funds, in relative terms, in 2008 the budget line for equality is smaller than in the previous year. The Daphne programme for combating domestic violence has obtained excellent results so far and the European Commission has seen this and recommended a budget increase as compared to 2007. Both for these two programmes, and for the EQUAL programme, the Council operated reductions as compared to the amounts proposed by the Commission in the preliminary draft budget. Moreover, the Council proposed a 7.5% decrease in the funds designed for the new gender institute, a completely unjustified decrease for a European institution that is just starting up. Unfortunately, we continue to notice that the Council’s political will to materialize the European strategies for equality of chances, for budgetary allocation, is still lacking. This is why the Parliament, as a branch of the budgetary authority, must compensate this deficit and provide consistency to the European Union’s gender policy."@en1

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