Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-09-03-Speech-3-176"
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The European Parliament must think that its Members are suffering from Alzheimer’s disease! Every year, at about the same time, two different reports appear: one on human rights in the EU and the other on equality between men and women.
Though the content of the first can vary slightly from one year to the next, quite clearly the same is not true of the second.
To believe this, all you need to do is read the previous ones: the Kauppi report in 2007 or the Estrela report in 2006 on equality between men and women. They list the same challenges to be met, report the existence of the same inequalities and make the same recommendations. Do we conclude that there has been no change? No, because progress has been made with employment and with the participation of women in decision-making at local, national and European level.
It is just that we Eurocrats, spurred on by the women’s lobbies – and I am thinking particularly of the powerful European Women’s Lobby – are not satisfied with the progress; they want and are advocating even greater equality, even greater similarity between women and men, to the point of absurdity.
Do we have to go along with this forced equality obtained through compulsory, discriminatory and minority-focused quotas?
I do not believe so. The battle of the sexes does not have to take place."@en1
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