Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting Votes
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FEMM European Parliament
Follow its sittingsLina Gálvez
No, I don't... ah yes, there. Okay. And Elisabeth Vossenberg-Brionidi will be replaced by Mr. Vellaris. Ah, he will come later. But so I have no more in EPP, it's all.
In S&D, Gabriela Firea will be replaced by Elisabeth Grossmann. And Johanna Schering-Wulffs will be replaced by Mrs. Estrada. And in Patriots, Viktória Ferenc will be replaced by Mieke Andreze.
And ECR, no changes. Renew, Valérie Hayer will be replaced by Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle. And Lucia Yar will be replaced by Veronika Cifrová. Yes, okay. And in Greens, we have Alice Kuhnke replacing Melissa Camara.
Anna Strolenberg replacing Alexandra Geese. And Thomas Waitz replacing Benedetta Scuderi. And finally, in The Left, we have Elena Kountoura replaced by Catherine Fouchon. Irene Montero being replaced by Mr. Everding.
And that's all I have. So, so, so we have done so, but before we proceed to the vote, I would like to give the floor for one minute to Abir Al-Sahlani, the rapporteur for this opinion, so the floor is yours for one minute, please.
Abir Al-Sahlani
Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, dear colleagues. In a trembling world where we see the rule-based order be renegotiated in real times on our phones, it goes without saying the first and biggest victims of this conflict, the degradation of the development aid, of the protection of civilians, is always women, girls, and children.
And with that in mind, when we looked at the European or the Global Europe instrument, we kept our lenses on these particular groups to try and ensure that they are thoroughly and well represented in both the purpose of this instrument, in how the money is divided, and who is to be prioritized. So I hope that you can support the outcome of our negotiations, and I would like to thank all my shadow colleagues for good cooperation, a fruitful dialogue, and hopefully an instrument that will be there for women and girls and children on the global scale when the world trembles and lets them down.
Lina Gálvez
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. And now we can proceed with the vote. So we start by compromise 29. Who's in favor? Against?
Abstentions? Adopted.
Amendment 171. Who's in favor? Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Compromise 30. In favor. Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Compromise 31. In favor. Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Compromise 32. In favor. Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Compromise 33. In favor. Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Compromise 34. In favor. Against. Abstentions. Adopted.
Amendment 200. In favor.
Against. Abstentions rejected. Compromise 35 in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted.
Compromise 36 in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. Compromise 37 in favor. Against.
Abstentions adopted. Compromise 38 in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted. Compromise 39 in favor.
Against. Abstentions adopted. Compromise 40 in favor. Against. Abstentions adopted.
Amendment 227 in favor. Against. Abstentions rejected. I think it's clear but the vote is open.
The vote is closed and it is rejected. Compromise 41 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 42 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 43 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 236 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 44 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 45 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 251 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 46 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 253 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 255 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 256 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 257 in favor, against, abstentions. I need to check this one. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 258 in favor, against, abstentions adopted.
Compromise 47 in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 259 in favor, against, abstentions. I need to check this one. I open the vote.
I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 260, in favor, against, abstentions. I think it's adopted, but let's check, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted.
Amendment 261 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 48 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 267 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 49 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 50 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 51 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 42 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 52 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 289 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 53 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 286 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 299 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 51 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 54 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 304 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 55 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 56 in favor, against, abstentions.
I need to check this one. I open the vote. Compromise 56. Then it was no problem, but there is the problem that the, it's adopted. I can already tell you that, but I close the vote.
But sometimes the timing in it is not easy. So we move to amendment 315 in favor?
Against? Abstentions? Rejected. Compromise 57. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 58. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 59. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 60. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 61. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 62. In favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 63.
63 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 72 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 64 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 65 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 66 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 81 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 67 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 68 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 69 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 85 in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 86 in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Compromise 1 in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 2 in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 3 in favor, against, abstentions adopted.
Compromise 4 in favor, against, abstentions adopted.
Amendment 92 in favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected. Amendment 93 in favor?
Against? Abstentions? Rejected. Compromise 5 in favor? Against?
Abstentions? Adopted. Amendment 95 in favor? Against? Abstentions?
Rejected. Amendment 96 in favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected.
Compromise 6 in favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 7 in favor?
Against? Abstentions? Adopted.
Compromise 8 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 9 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 110 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 10 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 11 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 12 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 13 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 14 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 15 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 16 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 123 in favor, against, abstentions. I need to check this one. I open the vote.
I close the vote and it is adopted. Compromise 17 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 18 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 19 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 20 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 21 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Amendment 138: in favor, against, abstentions. I think it is rejected, but let's check please. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted.
Compromise 22: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 143: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 23: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 24 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 25 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 152 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 26 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 27 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.
Compromise 28 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 159 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 160 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. 161 in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. And now we go to the final vote by roll call vote.
I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Congratulations. And now we move to the other file we have today for voting, which is the votes on motion for resolution of the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion on Cyprus women and girls and the crimes committed by Turkish forces and consequences on gender equality. We will be voting first the oral question and then the resolution.
But before that, I will give the floor to the rapporteur, Eleonora Meleti. You have the floor for one minute. Thank you.
Eleonora Meleti
Ευχαριστώ πολύ, κυρία Πρόεδρε. Ένα χρόνο μετά την αποστολή που κάναμε στην Κύπρο με την επιτροπή μας προκειμένου να συναντήσουμε από κοντά και να συζητήσουμε με τις γυναίκες θύματα της εισβολής του 1974, ήρθε η ώρα να κάνουμε πράξη αυτό που υποσχεθήκαμε.
Αυτό το ψήφισμα ήταν ανάμεσα στις υποσχέσεις που δώσαμε σε αυτές τις γυναίκες. Με τις μαρτυρίες τους μας καθήλωσαν, μας συγκίνησαν, μας άγγιξαν, μας έκαναν να νιώσουμε ότι είναι υποχρέωσή μας.
Lina Gálvez
Um, one second, but my, at least my Spanish translation is in Greek. Ah, so if let's try again. So, sorry about that, you could restart, let's hope now, now it's okay for me at least.
Eleonora Meleti
Να κάνω ένα τεστάκι, είμαστε εντάξει;
Ωραία. Λοιπόν. Έλεγα λοιπόν ότι έχει περάσει ένας χρόνος από τότε που κάναμε με την επιτροπή μας την αποστολή στην Κύπρο προκειμένου να μιλήσουμε για πρώτη φορά στα χρονικά με θύματα της εισβολής του 1974, γυναίκες οι οποίες ενήλικες σήμερα αλλά ίσως και τότε να ήταν ανήλικες πολλές από αυτές, διηγήθηκαν με λυγμούς και δάκρυα στα μάτια όλα αυτά τα οποία έζησαν κατά τη διάρκεια της τουρκικής εισβολής.
Αυτό το ψήφισμα ήταν μία από τις υποσχέσεις που δώσαμε όλα τα μέλη της αποστολής σε αυτές τις γυναίκες. Είναι το ελάχιστο που μπορούμε να κάνουμε προκειμένου να έρθει έστω και τώρα τόσα χρόνια μετά μια ηθική αναγνώριση του ότι οι γυναίκες αυτές έχουν υπάρξει θύματα βιασμού και σεξουαλικής κακοποίησης. Είναι μια ευκαιρία για εμάς να στείλουμε ένα πολύ ηχηρό μήνυμα ότι η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση σημαίνει πίστη στις αξίες της, στηρίζει τα κράτη μέλη της, ειδικά αυτά τα οποία βρίσκονται και σε κατοχή. Και είναι επίσης μια πολύ καλή ευκαιρία να στείλουμε ένα ηχηρό μήνυμα λέγοντας ότι ο βιασμός δεν πρέπει να χρησιμοποιείται ως όπλο σε περιοχές συγκρούσεων και κρίσεων. Θέλω να στηρίξετε αυτό το φάκελο για να επισφραγίσουμε και μια εποικοδομητική συνεργασία που είχαμε όλες οι πολιτικές ομάδες μεταξύ μας, να ενωθούμε σε αυτό, να στηρίξουμε αυτές τις γυναίκες θύματα και συμβολικά όλες τις γυναίκες οι οποίες πέφτουν θύματα σεξουαλικής κακοποίησης και βιασμού σε όλες τις περιοχές συγκρούσεων.
Lina Gálvez
Thank you indeed. Thank you. Thank you very much. And now we proceed to the to the vote. So first the the oral question as I was saying, so so the first we we vote electronic by roll call vote.
So the the draft oral question, so I open the vote. First the oral question. So okay. I close the vote. Is someone missing?
Yeah, well, it's adopted.
Congratulations. Now we move to the resolution, also by roll call vote, original text, recital J.
So the vote is open. The vote is closed and it is adopted. Now we move to paragraph 16 by roll call vote. It's a split vote in three parts, so we start by part one. The vote is open.
Sorry, we have to open again. Okay, it's okay.
So it's paragraph 16, first part. Well, the vote is closed and it is adopted. We move to part two, paragraph 16, by roll-call vote, the vote is open. The vote is closed and it is adopted. Now we move to part three, paragraph 16, the floor is, the vote is open.
The vote is closed and it is adopted. Now we go to the final vote, also by roll-call vote, the vote is open. The vote is closed and it is adopted.
Loucas Fourlas
Please, can I share something as the only Cypriot in the room?
Go ahead.
I will do it in Greek. Θέλω να φανταστείτε αυτή τη στιγμή χιλιάδες μητέρες και γιαγιάδες μας που νιώθουν μετά από 51 χρόνια δικαίωση. Και σήμερα στείλατε ένα ισχυρό μήνυμα ότι το έγκλημα πολέμου όσα χρόνια και να περάσουν δεν διαγράφεται.
Ευχαριστώ πολύ.
Lina Gálvez
Yeah, indeed, I think we have done the right thing to do and we really will feel proud for doing it and all victims really deserve that recognition, of course, that's clear.
So thank you, thank you, thank you very much all of you for the voting. Thank you Mr. Furlas for your words and now we will probably stop for a few seconds in order to have people who wants to leave the room to do it and then we can proceed with the next topic.
So hello, we will proceed now with the next point.
I know that it was scheduled at 10:45, but I'm a very efficient person. I'm obsessed always with time, probably because I was doing my research on time use before I joined the European Parliament. And probably so why I normally go quite fast on the voting. I think it's something appreciated. I normally appreciate when it's faster, but we are starting this point a bit earlier.
Anyway, so point six, which is a very important point in my opinion, which is establishing a budget expenditure tracking and performance framework and other horizontal rules for the Union program and activities.
So the on last year on July 25th, the Commission proposed a budget expenditure tracking and performance framework for the new MFF 2028-2034. And we as FEMM committee, we were referred for an opinion based on rule 57 of the Parliament's rule of procedure.
And so we started this file. This is a file that the responsible are in BUDG and CONT. It's Jean-Marc Germain from S&D and from CONT, Niklas Herbst. They had been here in our committee discussing that issue. We have had also hearings regarding that.
And I'm the rapporteur of this opinion, not as a chair, but as a S&D member of the European Parliament. So I will give my floor to myself for five minutes and then I will move to the shadow rapporteurs.
So, dear colleagues, dear all, let me start thanking to all of you for the work you have already done in this file, obviously the shadow rapporteurs, the secretariat, all the APAs and the assistants, the experts who has assisted us as well. And now I'm going to the point.
I think Europe has made significant progress on gender equality, but gender mainstreaming remains an unfinished task. So this idea of not only developing gender equality policies, but bringing equality to all policies remains an unfinished task, despite the provisions of Article 8 of the TFEU that says, and I quote, "In all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality between men and women." And now we are witnessing the outcome of a paradox, of a trap. There are groups of people in Europe and elsewhere, but we are in Europe, who believe we have gone too far with gender equality.
But the truth, if we take the reality, we take numbers, we take evidence, is that we are still far from achieving it. The gender gaps in employment, in pay and pension income, for instance, or gender-based violence, and I could continue and name it. So the reality and the estimations is that gender equality in the European Union remains at least another 50 years out of reach, according to EIGE, and in some countries even more. And indeed, we are starting to go backwards. And therefore, there are groups of people thinking that gender equality policies failed or they are useless.
How is that possible? Because politically we call for gender equality but we have never allocated sufficient resources or funding nor have we truly incorporated the gender perspective, the gender mainstreaming in all of our policies and along the policy cycle.
So implementation of gender equality throughout the MFF is not fully realized. Gender equality is presented as a horizontal principle but is far from being at the same level as social or climate principles. I mean, I'm talking now about the proposal from the Commission. No spending targets while in for climate or social it is. Do no significant harm principle while for the other it is.
And a most limited range of application. So we need political will but also we need money and we need the power to bring gender equality in all policy as we normally say but we don't provide the means for doing so.
So let me be clear, in the current climate, with a strong backlash against women's rights worldwide, turning our backs on a consistent horizontal principle on gender equality is not an option. It is a very serious risk to democracy in Europe. The European Union's long-term budget represents a key opportunity to safeguard and strengthen prosperity, peace and democracy based on gender equality, social priorities and environmental sustainability.
And the European Union's budget has a great impact on people's lives, both within and outside Europe, and of course, on women's lives everywhere. Achieving real gender equality requires a more transformative approach, which involves examining and redesigning systems and structures to promote gender equality for all, also for what it is the key word now, which is competitiveness.
This implies expanding the application of gender mainstreaming to cover all MFF programs and ensuring that support for gender equality is applied consistently across the European Union budget. To change the current European Commission's proposal for the multiannual financial framework 2028-2034 into an adequately one addressing the challenges facing people today and prioritize what really matters in women's lives. To achieve gender equality, we have to go further of what the Commission is proposing. Because let me be clear once more, we run the risk that the well-conceived cost-cutting theoretical principle of gender equality will be watered down when put into practice.
And that is the end, and we will take a step backwards rather than forward. So we face a big challenge and we have to be ambitious enough to tackle it, and I hope we will do at least in this committee and hopefully in this Parliament. The work has already started on a technical level and we will have a shadow meeting next plenary session in Strasbourg, and we have to adjust our timetable to the new one proposed by ECON and BUDG committees and hopefully we will vote on July the 14th. Open to discussing and negotiating whatever is necessary to go as far as possible should be the aim of this committee.
This committee, this Parliament, must send an unequivocal signal regarding the importance of effective implementation of gender equality in policies for the next year.
The FEMM Committee draft opinion includes 79 amendments by the rapporteur, myself. And further 274 amendments were tabled by members, including the annex with new intervention fields on the top. The main topics to discuss are spending target for gender equality, to include or not the do not harm principle, as I was explained before, it is included for environmental and social issues. And also the discussion around Annex 4 with some programs to have on board gender equality statistics based on sex in order to have gender ones or in the basis of gender. So this again, this idea of sex-gender is normally out there.
So, I hope we will make our best, as I said, not only to develop gender equality policies and strategies, but also to bring equality to all policies. And the only way to achieve this mainstreaming is through a good design on our budget through gender budgeting. So, now I will pass on the floor to the shadow rapporteurs. The EPP shadow rapporteur is not yet here, but probably it's because he was scheduled a bit late the discussion.
So I will continue with the rest of the shadows. And now I will give the floor for two minutes and a half to Margarita de la Pisa from Patriots. Margarita, the floor is yours. Thank you.
Margarita de la Pisa Carrión
Gracias, presidente, señorías. Cuando uno lee este informe podía pensar que estábamos hablando de presupuestos, de números y de cómo gestionar mejor el dinero de los europeos. Pero no. Lo que estamos viendo es una vez más el intento de utilizar el presupuesto de la Unión Europea para imponer una determinada visión ideológica a los ciudadanos. Porque estas enmiendas no hablan solo de gastar mejor o de ayudar a quien lo necesita.
Trata el principio horizontal de igualdad de género para llevar una agenda ideológica a todos los ámbitos de la vida: en la educación, la sanidad, el empleo, el deporte e incluso en la política exterior. Y se hace además sin ningún complejo.
Educación sexual para niños en la escuela primaria. Nos imaginamos la orientación. ¿De verdad creen que este es el papel de la Unión Europea? ¿De verdad creen que desde Bruselas se tiene que decir a las familias cómo educar a sus hijos?
Aborto. No hay un solo texto europeo en el que no se intente introducir con una ligereza preocupante, como si fuera una cuestión menor, casi administrativa, que deba incorporarse sin más en cualquier política pública o en cualquier línea presupuestaria. Eso sí, de hablar de ayudar a la mujer en un momento vulnerable como es el embarazo, silencio. Esta banalización constante es preocupante, no solo porque ignora la gravedad de lo que está en juego, sino porque revela hasta qué punto se intenta imponer ideas sin admitir siquiera debate. Mientras tanto, hay mujeres que siguen teniendo dificultades para llegar a fin de mes, para conciliar el trabajo y familia, para sacar adelante a sus hijos y cuidar a sus mayores.
De eso se habla poco, porque parece que algunos están más interesados en extender una ideología que en ocuparse de las preocupaciones que tienen las mujeres de cada día. Lo que defendemos es algo más sencillo, que el dinero de los europeos se utilice para resolver problemas concretos y no para financiar proyectos de ingeniería social. Defendemos la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres, la dignidad de toda persona, la protección de la maternidad y el derecho a las familias a educar a sus hijos conforme a sus convicciones. Y defendemos también algo que parece cada vez más haberse vuelto revolucionario, que es el sentido común.
Esperemos que nuestras enmiendas sean tomadas en consideración en tras las reuniones de compromisos. Gracias.
Lina Gálvez
Gracias, thank you. And now Giusi Princi is EPP shadow rapporteur. So Giusi, the floor is yours for two minutes and a half.
Giusi Princi
Grazie Presidente, parlerò in italiano. Colleghe e colleghi, vorrei ringraziare tanto la relatrice per il lavoro svolto su un dossier tecnicamente complesso e politicamente rilevante.
Questa proposta rappresenta un passaggio importante per l'Unione Europea che per la prima volta riconosce la parità di genere come principio orizzontale nelle regole che disciplinano il bilancio UE. Gli oltre 300 emendamenti presentati dimostrano quanto questo tema sia sentito e quanto sia importante costruire un quadro solido. Per il PPE il regolamento costituisce un'opportunità per passare da un approccio frammentato a una valutazione sistematica dell'impatto della spesa europea sull'uguaglianza fra donne e uomini.
In questa prospettiva, e proprio perché si tratta di un primo passo, riteniamo essenziale un approccio graduale, proporzionato e realisticamente attuabile. Condividiamo pienamente l'obiettivo del testo e riteniamo prioritario garantire la coerenza con il quadro normativo esistente, in particolare con l'articolo 33 del regolamento finanziario. Si tratta di uno strumento orizzontale applicabile all'intero bilancio, per cui è fondamentale integrare la dimensione di genere in modo efficace, evitando sovrapposizioni. I nostri emendamenti si concentrano quindi su priorità chiare.
Sosteniamo un approccio sistematico al gender mainstreaming nel bilancio europeo, basato su un quadro armonizzato e coerente con la legislazione settoriale. La parità di genere dovrebbe essere prevista come obiettivo nei programmi in cui è attinente. Insistiamo su una metodologia comune di gender tracking per tutte le attività del bilancio, basata su standard internazionali riconosciuti e pienamente allineata all'approccio dell'OCSE. Riteniamo fondamentale che i dati sugli indicatori di performance siano disaggregati per sesso, laddove pertinente.
Una base dati solida è essenziale per misurare risultati e progressi, ma occorre arginare oneri amministrativi eccessivi. Chiediamo inoltre un maggiore coinvolgimento dell'Istituto europeo per la parità di genere come punto di riferimento tecnico. Infine, crediamo sia necessario mantenere il testo chiaro e preciso, evitando ridondanze e rafforzando il collegamento con gli altri strumenti dedicati alla parità di genere, in particolare la strategia 2026-2030 e la tabella di marcia per i diritti delle donne, per garantire una visione comune e coerente a livello europeo.
Il PPE continuerà a lavorare in modo costruttivo per raggiungere un risultato equilibrato, ambizioso e attuabile. Grazie.
Lina Gálvez
Grazie. And now I would like to pass on the floor to ECR shadow, Beatrice Timgren. Please, the floor is yours for two minutes and a half.
Beatrice Timgren
Thank you, chair. I will speak in Swedish. Ja, det här yttrandet som vi behandlar just nu visar exakt vad det är för fel med EU:s utveckling. Man fokuserar inte på några verkliga resultat.
Istället så vill man bygga in symbolisk genuspolitik i hela EU-budgeten. Man vill till och med öronmärka 20 % av EU:s utgifter till jämställdhetsrelaterade mål.
Lina Gálvez
Wait for one second. I have no translation to Spanish. I don't know. Ahora sí. Ahora sí, pero antes no.
Gracias. No sé por qué. No, no, me da la disculpa, pero no vamos, no iba antes.
Gracias. Vale. Could you please restart because not because I'm the chair, but because I'm the rapporteur, so I really need to take notes of what you are saying, especially in this file. Sorry about that. Please.
Sorry.
Beatrice Timgren
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I will take it in Swedish. Det här yttrandet som vi behandlar visar exakt vad det som är fel med EU:s utveckling. Man fokuserar inte på verkliga resultat för kvinnor. Istället så vill man bygga in symbolisk genuspolitik i hela EU-budgeten.
Man vill till och med öronmärka 20 % av EU:s utgifter till jämställdhetsrelaterade mål. Dessutom vill man införa nya genuskontroller i flera EU-program och bygga ut byråkratin ytterligare. EU har redan problem med ineffektivitet, slöseri och krångliga regelverk. Svaret kan inte vara ännu fler checklistor och ännu mer ideologisk styrning. Symbolpolitik och budgetkvoter gör inte livet lättare för europeiska kvinnor.
Vi vill att EU:s pengar ska gå till resultat, inte till kvoter, symbolpolitik och nya administrativa plågor.
Därför säger vi nej till de här förslagen. Tack.
Speaker 20
Thank you, and now we move to Renew, Abir Al-Sahlani, please the floor is yours for two minutes and a half. Yes.
Abir Al-Sahlani
Thank you, Madam Chair. Looking at the amendments and the ongoing technical negotiations, I am hopeful that we will be able to find some broad compromises in this file when it comes to strengthening the horizontal gender equality principles in the regulation and make sure that we gender mainstream the entire budget and the whole budget cycle. I have said this before, gender equality should never be reduced to a checklist to be ticked off or a theoretical dimension added after the budget has been divided among other policy areas. And me, my and Renew Europe's main goal in this file is to ensure that this regulation helps make the EU budget deliver real results for gender equality and not allow equality to be treated like a side issue.
Besides that, if you do not have earmarked money for gender equality, we know it runs out in the sand. If you do not have earmarked money for women, these money, these women, the 50% of the EU population, will be forgotten when money and funds are allocated.
We know that as a matter of fact history has taught us and any political group saying otherwise either is not interested in gender equality nor has it read history. And claiming that we are not addressing real problems of women just because we are not talking about the problems these groups are pointing out is false. When you go to women, when you ask these women what their biggest problems are in the EU, then we know that the unfreedom, the lack of opportunity to be fully a human being in the EU is exactly what is lacking at the moment. And the backslide is here and I hope that this file can address some of it, but unfortunately as long as some of the groups here are blind to the real challenge, to the backsliding of democracy, I think it will be very difficult.
But as Renew group, we are committed to make this file as good as possible, go away from checklist and to real change in women's lives. Thank you.
Lina Gálvez
Thank you, thank you very much.
I don't see any other shadow rapporteurs in the room, but other members have asked for the floor. So, Ms. Androuët, the floor is yours for one minute, please. Patriots, sorry.
Mathilde Androuët
Chers collègues, oui, nous avons besoin d'un budget européen plus lisible. Oui, les citoyens ont le droit de savoir où va l'argent public, quels projets sont financés et avec quels résultats. Sur ce point, l'objectif de simplification et de transparence peut être entendu : passer de 5 000 indicateurs de suivi différents du budget pluriannuel à 700 est un immense défi. Mais nous refusons que sous couvert de performance budgétaire, l'Union européenne transforme chaque euro dépensé en instrument de contrôle idéologique. L'égalité entre les hommes et les femmes mérite mieux qu'une nouvelle usine à gaz, productrice de notes, de scores, de rapports ou de nouveaux indicateurs.
Combien de temps avant que ce critère ne devienne contraignant dans toutes les politiques de l'Union européenne ? Avec ce texte, vous allez généraliser l'application du principe d'égalité de genre dans toutes les politiques budgétaires de l'Union.
Certaines entreprises essentielles dans le domaine de l'industrie, de l'agriculture ou de la construction attirent peu les femmes. Elles seront donc très mal notées, là où des entreprises de services le seront beaucoup mieux. La méthodologie employée mettra donc en avant l'idéologie avant l'efficacité.
Dans un contexte de réarmement nécessaire, dans un contexte de crise économique et énergétique, est-ce vraiment la priorité ? Il y a fort à parier que comme d'habitude, ce genre de mesure ne soit contre-productive et n'empêche par idéologie les entreprises, surtout les PME et les TPE, d'accéder aux sources de financement. Comment allez-vous obtenir des critères objectifs et significatifs d'évaluation de l'égalité homme-femme dans ce cas ? La méthodologie n'en dit rien. Une petite entreprise mal notée aura-t-elle encore le droit d'accéder à certains fonds européens ?
Cette politique sera assurément une impasse. Il faut défendre une ligne claire, des données fondées sur le sexe alors que c'est pertinent, des statistiques précises et des priorités sociales concrètes pour les femmes les plus exposées comme les mères célibataires, les femmes âgées ou les aidantes.
Lina Gálvez
Merci Raquel Garcia Hermida-Vanderwelle, the floor is yours for one minute, Renew.
Raquel García Hermida-Van Der Walle
Yes, thank you, thank you Chair, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on this point. I am the rapporteur for the opinion for the REGI committee and as I've said in previous meetings, it's also for us an important element to take on board the gender equality element. And why I'm saying this is because we have heard this morning a couple of times already that the proposal is ideological and does not contribute to spending Europeans' money right. And I will dispute the both points.
The proposal is not ideological. The proposal is the reflection of two horizontal priorities in the EU text, in our treaties, in our legislation. Those horizontal priorities are, on the one hand, climate, on the other hand, gender equality. There might be some who don't like that either climate or gender equality are horizontal priorities or principles of the European Union, but that came to stand, came to be through a very democratic process. So I understand you might not like it, but it's not like we're coming now and imposing ideology.
No, we have all agreed with each other through our usual legislative procedures that those are horizontal priorities of the European Union. So it's only logical that our budget reflects those priorities, also when it comes to gender equality. And I am very, very surprised at the colleagues who say there are no clear effects for the well-being or the advancement of women in this regulation, because then I'm thinking you have not read the annex, because in the annex there are a number of indicators which clearly have a correlation with advancement of the position of women. Lastly, it is good for our economy to have gender equality. That has been proven again and again and again.
It is good for our employment to have gender equality.
That has been proven again and again and again. It is proven that European policies on the field of social spending help most vulnerable groups, among them women in, for example, poverty or at risk of social exclusion. Those are not things that we are making up. Those are things that research shows. So I would appreciate if colleagues did the reading a bit better before coming here with tales about ideological motivation when we have science supporting these positions.
Please do your reading, then come here and we can have a conversation about the facts. And that is what tracking and performance is. That's the motivation for this regulation. Thank you very much.
Lina Gálvez
Thank you, thank you very much. And thank you to all colleagues for their inputs, the ones that are part of the shadow meetings and the ones who are not.
And not indeed the the proposal, both the Commission proposal and at least my amendments are evidence-based. This is clear and they all link with many of the goals we are following as competitiveness indeed, as demography, as well-being and as democracy as well as the as the as the Union. I would like just to to say just a couple of of words just to say that obviously the budget could have a technical part, but it is not a technical exercise, is the most political exercise any government or institution has in his hands because is the way to to show, to show, to pointed out the political priorities.
And in our case, also to follow the principles that are included in our treaties and our fundamental values. And I would like to remind that gender equality, it is one of them. You might want to change it, but so far, as Raquel was saying, is the outcome of a long-term democratic process. And if we really believe in gender equality, we have both to include it as a horizontal principle, just bringing equality to all policies through this mainstreaming process, because everything we do affect in a different way to people that are in an unequal situation. And unfortunately, we are still in an unequal situation.
But we have also, we did also to allocate money to specific programs. And as Xavier was saying in the past, we know very well that how we have allocated money in our budget, it is not really helping or is helping very slowly to advance on achieving gender equality.
And just one last thing regarding the bureaucratic burden. Yes, democracy implies bureaucracy and there is I guess a cost for democracy but just try to think for a moment the cost of non-democracy. And not to develop a gender budgeting and to do it right it is very undemocratic because it's not that we are half the population as I normally say we are 10 million women in the European Union. So it will be a very undemocratic step not to advance on a gender budgeting not to advance on gender equality in our budget both horizontal and specific principle.
So thank you very much, really looking forward to the discussions that are still open, contrary to what it has been said that it is like it is a closed discussion. These discussions are still open, so there is still time that we could collectively improve the test, our opinion, and then to work in a united as possible and hard way in order that the outcome in the whole of the Parliament it is consistent with the European Union principle of achieving gender equality.
So having said that, I think we can conclude this morning's session and go back at 2:30 from 2:30 to 4:00 for continuing with a jointly committee with LIBE committee on the new strategy on anti-trafficking. So thank you, thank you very much and see you later.
Speaker 27
Good morning, everyone. I would like to ask you to take your seats. We are about to start the FEMM committee meeting. I would like to welcome you all to this meeting. I would like to inform you that the meeting is being webstreamed.
The draft agenda was circulated to all members and is considered adopted. The minutes of the meeting of the 24th of May 2023 were also circulated and are considered approved. We will now proceed to the voting session. The first item on the agenda is the vote on the draft report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating violence against women and domestic violence. The rapporteurs are Frances Fitzgerald and Evin Incir.
We have received 1,200 amendments to this draft report. The rapporteurs and the shadow rapporteurs have worked hard to reach compromise agreements on the most controversial issues. I would like to thank them for their constructive approach and for their commitment to this important file. We will now vote on the compromise amendments. The first compromise amendment is on the definition of rape.
The rapporteurs have proposed a definition based on the lack of consent, in line with the Istanbul Convention. This is a crucial point for the protection of women's rights and for the fight against gender-based violence.
Speaker 28
Good morning, everyone. We are starting our meeting. We have a very busy agenda today. We have several votes and then we have a hearing. So, I would like to ask you to take your seats.
And we will start with the first item on the agenda, which is the adoption of the agenda. Are there any comments on the agenda? I see none. So, the agenda is adopted. The second item is the Chair's announcements.
I have no announcements to make. So, we can proceed to the first vote. The first vote is on the draft report on the situation of women with disabilities. The rapporteur is Ms. Alice Kuhnke. We have received several amendments.
We will start with the vote on the compromise amendments. Compromise amendment 1. Those in favor? Those against? Abstentions?
Speaker 29
Are there any comments on the agenda? I see none. So, the agenda is adopted. The second item is the Chair's announcements. I have no announcements to make.
The third item is the approval of the minutes of the meetings of the 25th of January and the 15th of February. Are there any comments on the minutes? I see none. So, the minutes are approved. Now we move to the voting session.
The first vote is on the report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating violence against women and domestic violence. The rapporteurs are Evin Incir and Frances Fitzgerald. We will start with the vote on the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations. Please, prepare your voting cards. The vote is open.
Bonjour à toutes et à tous. Nous allons commencer notre réunion. Je vous demande de bien vouloir prendre place. Nous avons un ordre du jour assez chargé. Nous allons débuter par les votes.
Je vous rappelle que nous votons aujourd'hui sur plusieurs rapports et avis importants. Le premier point à l'ordre du jour concerne le rapport sur l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes dans l'Union européenne. Nous allons procéder au vote sur les amendements. Je vous invite à préparer vos cartes de vote. Est-ce que tout le monde est prêt ?
Bien, nous commençons par l'amendement numéro un. Qui est pour ? Qui est contre ? Abstentions ? L'amendement est adopté.
Nous passons à l'amendement numéro deux. Qui est pour ? Qui est contre ? Abstentions ? L'amendement est rejeté.
Nous continuons avec l'amendement numéro trois. Qui est pour ? Qui est contre ? Abstentions ?
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