Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-12-Speech-1-133"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-03-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Equality road-map (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070312.19.1-133"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-03-12-Speech-1-1342
lpv:speaker	lp:Angelika Niebler2
lpv:spokenAs	member; FEMM (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-11-14--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V. (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 chair; ITRE (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 substitute; IMCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with South Africa (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, equality policies have been laid down at the European level for nearly 50 years, yet, despite all our policy-making efforts, both at the European level and in the Member States – to which many speakers have made reference – we have not yet succeeded in reducing the disadvantages under which women labour. It is right, then that the European Union should not stop highlighting where action is needed to address such problems as violence against women, the lower pay they earn for doing the same work, poverty among women, discrimination against women in the pensions field, and so on. All these issues, I believe, need to be addressed and taken up again and again, and it is for that reason that I welcome the Commission’s gender equality roadmap and would like to thank our rapporteur, Mrs Sartori, for her good own-initiative report. I would not, however, wish to gloss over the fact that I cannot agree with it in every detail. One criticism made in the report is that the Commission has not submitted any new proposals for legislation, but I have to admit that I am quite happy that it has not done anything about this. It has, admittedly, announced that it will be reviewing, updating and, possibly, revising the existing legislation, but the Commission has done the right thing in taking account of the allocation of powers in this area to the Member States on the one hand and the EU on the other, instead of offering new proposals as part of its timetable straight away. I am very glad to see this, and so I cannot go along with Mrs Breyer’s words of criticism. The report also calls for the introduction of quotas, in research, for example, and that I reject as well, believing as I do that, in research, the criterion of excellence must apply, but nothing else, so that is a demand that I cannot endorse. Time does not permit me to discuss in detail the other provisions in which the prerogatives of the Member States come under attack, for example the demand for mandatory paternity leave throughout Europe, which I find unacceptable. I hope that, when we vote on the report tomorrow, this or that amendment will be rejected, so that I will then, at the end of the day, be able to vote in favour of this report."@en1

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