Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-02-02-Speech-4-139"
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"The Swedish Conservative delegation has today chosen to abstain from voting in a vote on equality between women and men in the EU. We Conservatives wish to combat the lack of freedom entailed by inequality and prejudices. It is not, however, the EU’s task to define which measures should be taken in the Member States or by other actors in society. We cannot, therefore, support the report, which makes numerous proposals that encroach on the Member States’ areas of competence, for example proposals concerning the provision of child care, where the Member States’ traditions and distinctive cultural features are so widely different from one another.
What is more, the report strays into areas that not even the Member States should regulate, for example that of whether political parties are examining strategies for getting more women into their party structures. There are, however, other important matters discussed in the report, for example the need to gather comparable statistics concerning, respectively, men’s and women’s wages and concerning the fight against discrimination."@en1
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