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"Madam President, I would like to thank my colleagues for their unstinting work trying to persuade the Commission to do the right thing: to publish a comprehensive and ambitious communication on a gender equality strategy, which is so urgently needed.
We need a plan that is holistic and brave, a plan that tackles the many faces of gender inequality, and this plan must ensure that gender is mainstreamed into all aspects of European policy. For example, in recent months I have been working on anti-poverty policy, and the truth is that we will never be able to meet the EU’s anti-poverty targets by 2020 without striving for true gender equality.
The economic crisis and austerity policies have disproportionately affected women. Single women are much more likely to be in precarious employment and to struggle to heat their homes and put food on the table. So what we need is policy coherence from the European Commission, revolving around one ambitious strategy to address the gender perspectives in all areas, including a much more social and gender-sensitive European semester. I look forward to seeing the Commission take this action that we so urgently need."@en1
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