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"Mr President, a lot of interesting things have been said here this evening. I would like to congratulate you on your contributions and on these ideas, which, without a doubt, also have a lot to do with proposals to emerge from the crisis.
Commissioner Reding said that we already have a lot of documents and that the time has now come to take action, something with which I fully agree. I think this is what civil society has been asking governments to do since 1995: that we begin to take action. Taking action means continuing to work towards real equality, and doing so, as Mr Romeva i Rueda said, with imagination and political will. True equality means improving the life of women, making their daily lives better, making men and women live better lives from day to day.
Seeing the crisis as an opportunity is something that has been repeated a lot this evening. I agree with this statement. I agree that the crisis also affords us opportunities. For some, it is already proving to be an opportunity, but we must not overlook the fact that there are also risks and backward steps.
As far as the equality issue is concerned, there have always been forward and backward steps, something that we women know only too well. There have never been forward steps that were not accompanied by backward ones. For that very reason, in order to prevent such backward steps, I believe that it is important that we do not abandon European consensus, that we do not lose sight of the road map that has enabled us to make so much progress together over recent years. Nor should we, the Member States, stray from the road map. As the Commissioner so rightly said, it is very important that we always remain true to the Commission’s recommendations.
I am finishing; I will not go on much longer. I believe that we cannot leave the marks of our identity or the coherence of our policies behind; those same policies have enabled us to show our better side to the whole world. I agree with Mrs Figueiredo that in the future, in order to work along this line, we have to strengthen coordination with the Council, coordination with the Commission, and coordination with the European Parliament, and, of course, we always have to keep an eye on civil society’s demands.
I would like to congratulate the House on the debate and the reports that have been presented to it this evening. The Spanish Presidency of the Council has 15 days left before it hands over to the Belgian Presidency. We have endeavoured not to let the issue of equality be overlooked at such a politically complicated and complex time as the time we are dealing with at present. It goes without saying that we in the Spanish Government shall continue to work on placing equality at the top of the European Union agenda."@en1
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