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"Madam President, Commissioner, Member of the Council, ladies and gentlemen, before us today is the conclusion of one stage and the start of another with the Directive for the European protection order for the victims of violence. I also want to thank the Polish Presidency and all those that have given us their support to allow this to finally see the light of day.
This is, therefore, the real message we are delivering: that abuse does not go unpunished, that crimes could be avoided. We will have figures on the aggressors and thousands of women will be able to breathe easily.
We were aware of the difficulty when the Spanish Presidency, alongside another eleven Member States, presented the initiative in January 2010. It has taken us two years. We knew that violence against women, in particular, as well as against the weak, is violence that is still considered to be taboo, one for which we don’t know the official figures for Europe and, therefore, it was difficult to demonstrate the need and urgency with no idea of the information, crime and its prevention.
The same thing occurred with the Directive for the trafficking of women, for paedophilia. There are no official figures: information exists that governments refuse to release, but no one doubts that human trafficking and paedophilia exist.
For that reason, a request was made at the same time to the Commission and the Council for the creation of an Observatory that could form part of the European Institute for Gender Equality or the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. At present, we have nothing more than a survey, the results of which won’t be known until 2013. Ms Reding, it is not enough.
We don’t have official data, but if our information is that 25% of women in Europe suffer violence, we are talking about a serious problem; if we talk about 2 500 women that have been killed, we are talking about a serious problem. Can we know how many women file a report in Europe? How many have access to a protection order? How many are killed? Can we know how many human beings, how many children are the victims of violence in the terror that occurs in the household?
It is so difficult to convince the Member States, but at least we have this Directive here today. We will all ratify it after a long process, during which a lot of resistance has been overcome. If we were in the commercial rather than the civil and criminal domain, the solutions would have been swift, without a doubt, but it is significant that it is the first directive created along the lines of preventative and restorative justice, and which is mainly aimed at women who are victims of violence.
Thousands of European women have placed a lot of hope in this Directive: the women’s associations that have fought for it and those that suffer harassment and abuse, and they expect a great deal from us. It is a directive that gives victims the protection to move around freely, to avoid the ordeal of double victimisation, double procedures and double interrogations. There will finally be no borders when it comes to protection.
We are now at the onset of another stage. We hope the Member States quickly transpose it. However, equally as important as the transposition, is the monitoring obliged by the Directive, the assessment of how it is applied, so that we know the reach of this first stage of this Directive. With this, we are simply starting the struggle against violence.
It is now necessary for women to file reports in Europe, Commissioner, to lose their fear, to defend their dignity, so that they can become citizens. Not even the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the European Union covers this torture, this killing in the private domain; this possibility is not included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. The possibility of torture by state institutions is included, but not by someone who receives affection. Furthermore, this is what is terrible about these killings that occur in the darkest hours of the household."@en1
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