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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, today, this House – representative of all 27 States – has decided, with courage and obstinacy, once again to tackle a delicate, but at the same time topical, issue for our countries’ social growth. We are dealing with a report which affects the social, employment and economic policies of our States, but which also concerns the whole of Europe in its desire to grow in unison.
The Estrela report, as debated and amended, pursues with conviction the principle of reconciling private and working life and that of equal opportunities, and therefore of healthy and balanced progress. To ensure a minimum threshold to protect the aforementioned principles throughout Europe means improving the quality of life of our families and not only that of our women, and therefore also our quality of life; this is what we are facing with conviction and with the appropriate compromises.
Balance is necessary in the ends as well as the chosen means and must safeguard both the position of women in the labour market and the prerogatives of the States in implementing their policies. Jean Monnet taught us to grow by taking small steps. Let us begin to take these small steps, without being afraid that others will follow them."@en1
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