Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-12-13-Speech-4-088"
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"Mr President, I want to thank Commissioner Kinnock for his extremely detailed report. Mr Kinnock, I really did try to keep up with what was going on here. If I understand the matter correctly, the fact is that the partners of homosexuals who are not Swedish, Finnish or Dutch citizens seeking posts within the institutions of the EU are not recognised by these institutions if, as Mr Cashman says, they do not have documentation. Perhaps the latter could in those circumstances go on language courses at some stage.
Against that background, I personally do not, unlike certain others in this House, think that we have come a particularly long way. I appreciate, Commissioner Kinnock, that it is very difficult indeed to make progress in this area because we have a lot of strange prejudices about people of the same sex who love each other in the same way as heterosexuals.
Nor can I quite understand why the institutions of the EU should in this case treat employees on a national basis. If that reasoning were to be followed through, it would mean that people employed within the EU’s institutions could have their wages set on a national basis, but that does not happen.
I understand, Commissioner Kinnock, that the situation is very difficult in view of the prejudices that exist, but I cannot agree that things are developing particularly quickly in this area."@en1
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