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"Mr President, today we have passed one more initiative but we must, as the Commissioner said, move from words to deeds.
Despite measures, inequality persists. Women are well educated. According to the most recent data from universities, they are the achieving better results, but we continue to be discriminated against. This is especially the case for women who are disabled, elderly women and immigrant women, who suffer double discrimination.
Today, in addition to this initiative, we have heard many statements but we are not prepared to set an example. It is sufficient to look at what gender the President of the Commission is or to examine the members of the Council, the rotating presidencies, the President of the Council, the President of Parliament and the President of the Court of Auditors; at the members of the European Central Bank, among whom, for the first time, there will be no women; at the chairs of this institution’s parliamentary groups; or at the lack of women in the delegations of some countries.
The image of European politics remains male. We have a very long way to go. That is why I voted for this initiative. I believe in quotas as the way to make progress along this difficult path and, above all, in the motto I started with: from words to deeds."@en1
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