Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-01-14-Speech-1-065"
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"Mr President, with this new year two new countries have joined the Euro zone and adopted our single currency. This brings to the forefront once again a demand that should already be a reality in an advanced, modern and progressive Union: gender equality on new coins.
This has been a constant theme in history: women have scarcely ever been portrayed on newly minted coins. Female figures, contributions and work have never been given any symbolic recognition, not only in this respect. Gender equality is one of the values on which we are building the European Union and in that context equality should extend to all areas.
It is important to recognise and support the action of so many women in different spheres – science, culture, education, politics – whose work, lives and names should be recognised, studied and remembered. In some countries, such as my own, Spain, the Parliament has approved a proposal to this end.
This Parliament and the Commission should take the necessary initiatives and recommend to all the Member States that they take the appropriate measures to ensure that when Euro coins are being minted, equal consideration be given to references and images of both men and women."@en1
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