Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-06-Speech-4-051"
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"Madam President, firstly, I wish to thank you for this discussion, which really has illustrated the importance of the roles we all have to play. The Commission must accept its responsibility. I am aware that my colleague, Mrs Diamantopoulou is right now investigating the possibility of organising round-table discussions in the Member States and the candidate countries in order to discuss the issue of gender equality. I believe that these discussions must cover everything from nominations to the way in which subsidies and forms of support might be designed to enable us also to promote gender equality.
In this area, there is, of course, also a very important role for the political parties, the European Parliament and the non-governmental organisations. They must work closely together on improving women’s representation. In the run-up to the European Parliament elections, it is quite clearly an important task to ensure that we maintain, and ideally increase, women’s representation. All the contributions have also made it clear that the new Member States too must be made aware of this, if we are to ensure that women are well represented right from the start.
This is an issue that, for better or for worse, we shall have to live with for a long time to come, for we unfortunately live at a time when it is easier to split an atom than to overturn a prejudice."@en1
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