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"I am grateful to Commissioner Kinnock for this reply and the positive attitude which underlies it and also – I am sure – the work which he is carrying out. Nevertheless, Commissioner, I have to point out that in this area of making women’s representation the norm, the Commission has had a hypocritical attitude for more than twenty years. Its attitude has been a hypocritical “I would like to, but I cannot”, and this hypocritical impotency sends a very damaging signal to the world as a whole.
My question did not talk of exclusion, as you know very well; it talked of the fact that the number of women in high positions stands at barely 10%. The figures which you have offered – emphatically – here in the plenum of the European Parliament, are ridiculous and shameful. An institution such as the European Commission, which has for years claimed to be in favour of women also at the highest levels of administration, cannot be satisfied with that exclusion which the figures demonstrate. And the photographs of the European Councils are a horrific illustration of the sexism of European decision making."@en1
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