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"Mr President, the resolution urges the adoption of a directive for the balanced representation of men and women on boards. This is a piece of EU legislation that allows for sanctions such as the dissolution of a company just because it has not succeeded in reaching the arbitrary target imposed by the European Union. You do not fight discrimination with discrimination. Bringing in quotas is demeaning for women – the women who have worked hard and made it to the top of their professions. It should not matter what gender you are or what your ethnic background or religion is: if you are the best-qualified person for that job, you should get it. But with the instigation of these policies, people could look around the boardroom and question whether a colleague is the best person for the job, or if they simply obtained their position because their gender ticked the right boxes on the EU checklist.
Paragraph 56 calls for the Commission to create best-practice models for sex and relationship education for young people. Paragraph 60 urges the Commission to implement sex education programmes in schools and ensure counselling and access to contraception. It is outrageous, absolutely outrageous, that the EU seeks to interfere with the Member States’ education systems, especially with regard to sex education.
And, to top things off, in the explanatory statement you even say who should be doing the housework. If I can quote directly from it: ‘men will have to devote more time to the housework’. What kind of organisation interferes to this extent in the private lives of people, their marriages and their partnerships? It is up to adults in the privacy of their own homes to decide who does what. It is not the place of any government, and it certainly is not the place of EU bureaucrats to decide who does and who does not do the dishes.
In 1975 the UK voted to join a Europe of free trade and friendship, not a European Union of political control and social engineering. This is yet another reason to vote ‘no’ in the upcoming UK referendum. Let us regain our freedom and independence from these meddling EU bureaucrats."@en1
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