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"I did not vote on the report on equality between women and men in the European Union – 2011 and I am sorry that I had to forego this right and duty. Many of its statements are principles that I have always supported and promoted: salary inequality is still unacceptable, with a 17.5% gender pay gap; the difficulty of staying in work after one’s first child is born; a more acute risk of poverty for women; the objective of the EU 2020 strategy to achieve a 75% employment rate for women; the need for a gender budget that takes account, in all public dimensions, of the different needs for equal rights between men and women. However, an opportunity has once again been missed. The true meaning of this resolution has instead been twisted into a demagogic wasteland in an attempt to make everyone happy, while actually not pleasing anyone, and going so far as to even deal with the adoption of children by same-sex couples, while lamenting the definition of the family and parenthood as ‘too restrictive’ in some Member States. I think these issues are worthy of extensive debate, as are the reflections on liberalisations regarding
couples, including same-sex couples. However, purely for reasons of political strategy, the text voted on today should not have been the place for it."@en1
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