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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, this evening’s report, for which I thank Mrs Gröner very much, concerns a very important subject because it is at the heart of policies of equality between men and women. It is extremely difficult to implement what the European Parliament is proposing with gender mainstreaming, which I would translate into French as
. First of all we need to recognise how difficult it is to make policies specific to women, which is why Parliament has a Committee on Women’s Rights, and, at the same time, ensuring that those policies have transverse effects across all committees and in all political issues. That is what this report is proposing. Europe is once again a pioneer in this area and we should be extremely mindful of this twofold problem. We should walk on two feet rather than just one: on the one hand, equality, with the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities, and on the other hand, gender mainstreaming, which is extremely difficult. We all see this every day in our respective committees, outside the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities.
This report, for which I would again like to thank Mrs Gröner, proposes a two-stage process. On the one hand, it is about affecting decision making, ensuring that gender mainstreaming is applied at all levels within the European Parliament, as I believe it already is, and to a greater extent, in the Commission. On the other hand, the emphasis is not on parity but on equality of the sexes in all areas, thanks to this report, the adoption of which in the plenary I welcome, having myself tabled an amendment for the vote in plenary. I think that this second point is just as fundamental. That is why this report is important both for its pioneering nature and because it highlights the difficulty of this policy.
Commissioner, the informal Council meeting last week had already practically ratified some proposals of this report and I am pleased about that. However, I am much less pleased about what is happening with enlargement. Malta has just gained the right to vote on enlargement despite its anti-abortion legislation and its restrictions on divorce, and these seem to have been accepted by Europe and by the fifteen Member States. It also seems that Poland is looking to retain the prerogatives of its laws on gender rights. I question the political will of our fifteen Member States. It has been said that it was important for us to set an example to future Member States, but if we cannot ask them to respect a certain number of established principles regarding women’s rights, I am greatly concerned."@en1
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