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"Every year, the European Commission reports to the spring European Council on progress regarding equality between men and women in the Member States, as well as presenting the challenges and priorities for the future. The context of this own-initiative report is the release of the latest Commission communication on this issue, published in February 2011. Equality between men and women constitutes one of the fundamental principles of EU law and that is the commitment that needs to be renewed, thereby consolidating gender equality in the context of the Europe 2020 strategy. However, this report tackles very sensitive issues, such as mutual recognition of civil unions and families comprising same-sex couples, abortion, the role of women in political decision making and the use of quotas, and even the Maternity Leave Directive. I therefore believe there is a long way to go in this regard, given that the strategy for achieving the proposed objectives also involves there genuinely being greater concentration and focus on the issue of equality between men and women in the European Union, distracting us from other issues that, while related, could nevertheless obscure the true scale of this problem."@en1
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