Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-13-Speech-2-196-000"
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"Madam President, we will have to wait and see where the European Parliament stands on apple pie, but we now know its position on motherhood, and for many of the supporters of this report on equality between the sexes, it really is in that category.
Of course, if we were simply proposing equality of all citizens before the law, it would be very difficult for anyone to disagree. But what has happened is that this report has become a kind of general holdall receptacle for every current nostrum – quotas on company boards, quotas in political parties, abortion law, reproductive rights. I am not saying that there is not a case to be made for and against all of those issues, but surely they ought to be determined through our national democratic mechanisms and procedures?
If national parliaments cannot even decide sensitive and ethical questions [
] accountable to their own electorates, what are they doing there? If, as independent countries, we cannot settle these matters for ourselves, let us quit all and give our vineyards to a barbarous people."@en1
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