Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-24-Speech-3-119"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, first of all, I would like to thank Mrs Martens and Mrs Avilés Perea, whose reports, I believe, have produced unanimity, which is very pleasing. I would also like to agree with the other speakers who have highlighted a few specific points in these reports.
First of all, I think that they share common ground, and particularly when they demonstrate that the question of poverty, just like the question of violence, are gender-related questions wherever they arise in the world. We are all too used to this, and I have recently heard so much debate on violence in my country, but no one has pointed out that violence is not meted out in the same way by men and by women and on men and on women. I believe therefore that the gender aspect of poverty and violence are important points.
I would also like to say that given this difficulty – and there are many other difficulties – but if I think about this particular one, I think that what is in the pipeline in the future directive, Commissioner, which will be based on Article 13 and which will deal with all the questions other than that of employment, the question of the individualisation of rights will be key. What do I mean by the individualisation of rights? These are rights that we give, independently of marital status, to a person. I think that this is our future. And it is important to emphasise that these reports allude to this and that we must, in my view, defend this particular point. We must also defend ourselves at a time when, in my country, a candidate standing in the presidential elections is contemplating making women stay at home – he has said this and he has written this. I think that the question of what we often refer to as conciliation – which I myself do not like to call conciliation – in other words, the organisation, the relationship between what we do at home and what we do with our children, as a family, and what happens in public, whether it be political or professional life, we have a genuine need to organise this.
I think that it is also important to highlight this point, whichever country we might discuss. Perhaps all we need to do is to think about the future with the individualisation of rights and the interaction between professional and public life, and then think about this directive as well. Of course, I expect the Commission to put forward its proposals in the very near future, and then we can consider enlargement. We hope that the
will be transposed into national law. We want the transposition of the
. We know that it is very difficult. The Baltic countries will soon start the transposition of some Community legislation into their national law and we know that this will be difficult."@en1
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