Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-12-Speech-1-090-000"

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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, on the occasion of International Women’s Day it is a very good idea to debate here reports on the situation of women in the European Union, particularly with regard to equal treatment and equal opportunities between men and women in all spheres. Unfortunately, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality has once again wasted the opportunity to produce reports that could have obtained a large majority at committee and could have been approved by a large proportion of MEPs in plenary. One may wonder why it is not possible to find consensus on the progress clearly still to be made in most Member States to guarantee equal rights, equal treatment and equal opportunities between men and women. Unfortunately, it is because those that see themselves as left-wing, in the committee and also in plenary, take a perverse pleasure in including demands in these reports that interfere with subsidiarity, as in the case of guaranteed minimum income or abortion, or which derive from extremist positions that even in a favourable economic climate would be unaffordable. The self-proclaimed holders of the monopoly on the safeguarding of equality are insisting upon these ideological and populist proposals. Personally, I deeply regret the fact that they are doing women a grave disservice and preventing progress instead of promoting it. The unfortunate Estrela report on the protection of maternity is a perfect example of this. If we and the Commission had been listened to, the minimum length of maternity leave in the European Union would already have been extended by at least two weeks, at least a year ago. With regard to quotas to achieve the aim of parity, I have a certain sympathy for the women that have spoken to me on this subject. They want nothing to do with quotas because they are succeeding without quotas. They fear being categorised as quota women, namely in the same category as women who have only been promoted because of quotas. The European Parliament has the most gender-balanced composition, 35% women and 65% men. because what they want, what the Germans call what they will certainly try, very diligently, to do, is to find out what is going on with the remaining 5%, who are apparently neither men nor women. This must be corrected in the German version, and perhaps in other versions, because this House is definitely made up of 35% women and 65% men. This is, clearly, far from parity and, above all, absolutely not balanced."@en1
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