Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-01-Speech-4-011"
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"Mr President, first of all I congratulate my colleague Mrs Niebler on the extraordinary work that has been performed both in committee and in negotiating with the Presidency, the Commission and the shadow rapporteurs in Parliament. I am truly proud of that, in my capacity as group coordinator in the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality.
I am also pleased that this directive is coming to a conclusion, because it contains a number of things that should now make Parliament happy to adopt it. I shall focus on three points. The first is that it provides us all with an argument to use in reply to anyone who asks us what Europe is doing about Lisbon, after all the publicity over the Lisbon Agenda’s contents. A few months ago I was finding it difficult, because people were mostly talking to me about the budget and asking me what resources we allocate for the objectives mentioned in the Lisbon documents. Today, however, I can answer by citing this directive, for instance; in other words, I can say that because we – under Lisbon – call for women to join the world of work
we regard this as an essential factor for us to be able to maintain the welfare state in Europe that we all want to protect, while at the same time we are aware that, once we ask that of women, we also need to give them further assurances. That is the first reason why I am proud and pleased.
The second point is that with this directive we are continuing along the path of sound administration, by reducing the number of directives dealing with this matter from seven to one, and thus through this directive we are also demonstrating better regulation.
My third point concerns the content – obviously the most important aspect – which has already been summarised and presented by Mrs Niebler and the Commission. I would just add a couple of comments: in recent months, problems associated above all with discrimination in the areas of pay, access and training and also indirect discrimination have been highlighted in all the countries of the Union, including those that have historically been considered the most advanced in terms of women’s policies.
I believe that this directive addresses those problems that have been pointed out to us: equal pay, equal treatment in occupational social security schemes, and equal treatment in access to work, to training and to career promotion. Thus I am pleased and, once again, I would like to express my thanks for the work that has been done."@en1
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