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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should first like to remind the House that we have been waiting a long time for this directive. The point has already been made that the directive to combat racism and discrimination based on ethnic origin was approved in the year 2000 – some four years ago. It could be that nobody is interested in this issue; it could also be that this is simply an extremely tricky one.
It also appears to me that the Commission had a great deal of difficulty in reaching this agreement. The programme should have been much broader and should have encompassed education and the media, yet all of this is absent from the final draft. I regret this, given that we are not satisfied with the replies given regarding the media and discrimination in the media, which consisted of saying that self-regulation is sufficient, and that we have been told so by those who work in the sector. I feel that all of us here can confirm, with regard to our own countries, that self-regulation is not sufficient. The ‘Television without frontiers’ directive also contains provisions to combat sexism in the media. The reality of the situation, however, leaves something to be desired.
The area before us – that of housing, insurance, goods and services – is important; having listened this evening and read this report and draft, we realise how difficult it is to combat these forms of discrimination. Against this backdrop, I do not wish to complain, but rather to take satisfaction from the fact that Europe is achieving more than each of our countries in terms of addressing an extremely tricky issue, namely, fighting against stereotypes in the criteria used to calculate premiums or in types of insurance. I think it is tremendous that Europe is able to devote its attention to problems such as these.
Some speakers have suggested that, in actual fact, we are far from achieving our goal, that stereotypes still prevail, that we are content to use stereotypes rather than, as has been said time and again, to consider a range of contributory factors that would enable us to address more appropriately the difficulties that people have in the area of insurance. This is all too true. I feel that it is imperative that we combat stereotypes in the area of insurance underwriting and risk assessment.
It has been said that women are the ones who lose out. Men might say, from their point of view, that they do not all wish to be seen as road hogs and bad drivers. It is, consequently, both men and women who will be affected if we manage to achieve equal representation in the area of insurance."@en1
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