Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Ordinary meeting

23 June 2026

Legend

Transcript markers

  • text Sentence being played
  • text Search result
  • text Intervention cited by the link you opened

Click a sentence to play the video from that moment. Select text to quote it with the speaker, timestamp and link.

More options
Official source
Offset

Transcript offset

0s
Text size
Export

Select segments to export (Word)

0 segments selected
Replay

Versions of this video

Transcripts may differ slightly from one version to another.

FEMM European Parliament

Follow its sittings
04:35 - 05:28
Speaker 2
Hello.  Hello, could you please take a seat if possible?  Hello.  So thank you, thank you very much.  So let's start, we have a not short, not very long, but not short votes today. 

And before the voting list, it's true.  The adoption of the agenda, we have something here.  Yes, so we start by point one, which is the adoption of the agenda.  Please be informed that point eight, reporting on the FEMM mission to Georgia, is postponed at the request of the chair of the mission to September 2026, so it will not be part of today agenda.  And if there is no comments, but I think there are some comments, so Eleni Meleti, please, the floor is yours. 
05:28 - 08:50
Speaker 1
Thank you, chair.  I would like to make a point of order related to the vote on the allocation of the FEMM opinions to the chair.  It is so sad that we have to vote this kind of things at the committee level since there is a dedicated place for the allocation of the files, which is the coordinators' meeting.  As I have already mentioned in the past, political groups that claim to support gender equality and women's rights and that have a good amount of remaining points should take those files.  Unfortunately, no interest was shown. 

EPP has proved in practice its support to the work of the committee as we have spent all of our points.  We do not question the objectivity of the chair in any case, but we would like to add to the vote the possibility of the opinions to be done in the form of a letter as a consequences of the lack of interest shown from the political groups.  Thank you. 

Thank you.  Yes, this is something normally it is in coordination, coordinators, but we did not have enough support for any of the options.  So what we are going to do, unless anyone else would like to take the floor, what I would suggest to do in addition of the of a vote of opinion in form of, I mean, just has been proposed by EPP, we will vote on this addition.  So if the addition is adopted, the votes will change in the following order.  So please, so it means we are going to do three votes. 

So please, it is not easy to understand.  So I insist.  So first thing, there is a proposal.  So the first thing we have to vote is on the proposal.  Only the proposal, not that this will be the final outcome. 

Adopted.  The votes will change in the following order.  So please, so it means we are going to do three votes.  So please, it is not easy to understand.  So I, I insist. 

So first thing, there is a proposal.  So the first thing we have to vote is on the proposal.  Only the proposal, not that this will be the final outcome.  So first we will be voting if the addition in the agenda is adopted or not.  Only that. 

So if then we will vote later on on the allocation of the adoption opinion, sorry.  I have no my, ah finally, sorry.  I have forgotten my glasses.  That is the, the, now I'm another person.  Hello again. 

So it was really, really difficult for me to, to read without my glasses.  So fine.  So we will vote later on, so first only if the change in the agenda is adopted or not.  Second, we will vote on the allocation of the opinion.  So it will be a full opinion as we decided a few months ago and it was approved by the CCC and the COP. 

08:50 - 26:20

Lina Gálvez

If we will do a full opinion and it will go to the chair, that it will be yes or no. If approved, we do full opinion and we do not take a second vote, that it will be a third vote in reality. If not approved, if we have said yes to changing the agenda and include the possibility of voting for to make an opinion in form of a letter, then we will have a third vote on opinion in form of a letter to go to the chair, yes or no. Okay? So should I, should I repeat once more?

So first, yeah, it's okay, everyone? Yeah. So before we start, we need, we still need to go through the substitute. So at the EPP, Rosa Estaràs will be replaced by Miriam Lexmann. I don't see Miriam, ah yes, sorry about that.

Arba Kokalari will be replaced by Michal Wawrykiewicz, sorry, B-L-A-G-A-J-A. And this one I will make it very good. And Ewa Kopacz will be replaced by Elżbieta Łukacijewska. This one I, and Elisabeth Vossenberg-Brionidi will be replaced by Michalis Hadjipantela. That's no, yes.

Okay. And then Maria Walsh will be replaced by Georgios Autias. Yes, perfect. And then S&D, Gabriella Fira will be replaced by Cecilia Strada. Heléne Fritzon by Sofie Eriksson.

Alessandra Moretti by Matthias Nemeth. Ah yes, there. Maria Noichl by Elisabeth Grossmann. Yes. And Emma Rafowicz by Hanna Jaloulo Muro.

In Patriots, we have Mathilde Androuët replaced by Mélanie Disdier. Thank you. And Sebastian Cruz replaced by Séverine Verbrouck. Yeah. Then ECR, Assita Kanko replaced by Jessica van Leuven.

And Laurence Trochu replaced by Bert-Jan Ruissen.

Okay. Renew, Vice-Chair Samira Rafaela replaced by Jana Toom. And in Greens, no replacement. And in The Left, Elena Kountoura by Hanna Gedin. Okay, everything fine.

So now we vote on the addition of the agenda proposed by EPP. So, show of hands. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

So, I think we have to check, sorry about that. Open the vote. Close the vote. And it is rejected. So now we move to the vote as it is, as it was.

So yeah, so now yes, we have to vote on the allocation. Just to, we agree on the allocation of the, well sorry, we agree on having an opinion and now we need to agree if the allocation of the FEMM opinion, so to do an opinion on the human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union's policy on the matter, annual report 2023, it is going to the Chair. If yes, vote yes. If no, vote no. So in favor?

Against? Abstentions? I think we have to check again, sorry about that. One person still to vote. Well, just close the vote.

And it's rejected. So we don't do the opinion on the human rights. No, no, no, please, this is not the moment to, this, sorry. This is not, this is not the moment to discuss. And this is not the moment to discuss.

That's the problem we have normally here in coordinators, so why we have translated to the committee, but we have not solved in the committee. So let's go to the other opinion. So this is again an opinion on business skills in the Union, opportunities for vocational education and training in times of transition. So again, do you agree, I will do electronic vote because it's very equal, so for me it's impossible absolutely to know who is voting what. So do you agree with the allocation of this opinion to the Chair?

The vote is open. No, we did not vote to that. I mean, we did not approve that. So the vote is open. Yes, a full opinion.

So the vote is closed. It will be the same problem. And now it's adopted. So we will do an opinion on this one but not in human rights. So we'll proceed with the votes.

So we will start now the vote in three files. First one on gender inequalities in health, specifically as regard gender-specific conditions. The second one on establishing the Agora EU programme for the period 2028-2034. And the third one on establishing the European Social Fund as a part of national and regional partnership plans set out in regulation. Okay, so let me...

Yeah, we start the gender inequality. These are the three we have to... Sorry? So the rapporteur is not here. Normally we would give the floor, but so we start by...

So we start by compromise 16. Who is in favour? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Compromise 17. Who is in favour? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Compromise 18 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 19 by roll-call vote.

I open the vote. No, no, now, yes. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 20 by roll-call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 21. Who is in favour?

Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 22. Who is in favour?

Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 23. Who is in favour?

Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 24. Who is in favour?

Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise 25 by roll-call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 26, I open the vote. By roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote.

And it is adopted. Compromise 27. In favour? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 28. In favour? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 29. In favour? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 30. In favour? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 31 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted.

Compromise 32. I open, by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 33 by roll-call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote.

And it is adopted. Compromise 34 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted.

Compromise 35 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 36 by roll-call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted. Compromise 37 by roll-call vote. I open the vote.

No, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. The inertia. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 38. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 39. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 40. This one yes, by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote.

And it is adopted. Compromise 41 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote. And it is adopted.

Amendment 189. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

189. And what I say, six? I say I did dyslexia. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it was, yeah, rejected.

So we move to 194. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

260, amendment 260. Who is in favor? Amendment 260. Two six zero. Who is in favor?

Who is against? Abstentions? I have to check this one. I open the vote. Two six zero.

I close the vote. And it is adopted. Amendment 279. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? Rejected. Amendment 324. Who is in favor? Okay, okay, I wait.

3 2 4. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

Compromise one. Who is in favor? I wait. Compromise one. Okay, everyone is okay?

Compromise one, who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Adopted. Amendment 33.

Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected. Compromise two.

Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise three.

Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? So let's because, compromise three, who is in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise four. Who is in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise five. Who is in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise six. Who is in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise seven. Who is in favor? Against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise eight by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote.

Adopted. Compromise nine. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise 9, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 10, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 11, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 12 by roll call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Compromise 13, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 14 by roll call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Compromise 15, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 43, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 45, who is in favor, against, abstentions, I have to check this one. I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is rejected. Amendment 46, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 48, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 85, who is in favor, 85, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 88, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected.

Amendment 89, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 90, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 171, who is in favor, 171, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. And then we go to the final vote by roll call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Congratulations. So we move to the following file which is establishing the Agora EU program for the period 2028-2034.

26:20 - 28:13

Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Nos gustaría presentar una minority opinion, una opinión minoritaria. Quienes suscribimos esta opinión minoritaria reconocemos la importancia de mejorar los resultados sanitarios de las mujeres y de abordar las condiciones médicas específicas ligadas al sexo. Sin embargo, el texto final va mucho más allá de los objetivos legítimos. En lugar de centrarse en la atención sanitaria basada en la evidencia, en las lagunas existentes en la investigación y en la mejor diagnóstico y tratamiento de las enfermedades que afectan a las mujeres, el informe promueve repetidamente conceptos ideológicos, entre ellos la identidad de género, la interseccionalidad y numerosas referencias a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos. El informe también pretende promover el aborto como objetivo de política pública a nivel de la Unión Europea y presenta el acceso al aborto como un componente fundamental de la asistencia sanitaria, pese a que las cuestiones éticas y familiares siguen siendo competencias de los Estados miembros.

Asimismo, reclama una actuación de la Unión Europea en ámbitos en los que debe respetarse el principio de subsidiariedad, incluidos la educación, la organización de los sistemas sanitarios y la política social.

Además, el informe impulsa sistemáticamente la transversalización de la perspectiva de género en las políticas sanitarias, amplía el papel de las agencias de la Unión Europea y de las organizaciones activistas e introduce conceptos que carecen de una base jurídica clara en los tratados. Quienes suscribimos esta opinión minoritaria apoyamos una mayor investigación médica sobre la salud de las mujeres, un mejor diagnóstico de las afecciones específicas femeninas, un mayor apoyo de las madres, las mujeres embarazadas y los pacientes que padecen enfermedades crónicas. Sin embargo, rechazamos la orientación ideológica de este informe y los repetidos intentos de utilizar la política sanitaria para promover agendas sociales y políticas controvertidas. Gracias.

28:13 - 44:36

Lina Gálvez

Thank you. So now we go to the Agora EU voting. So we start by amendment 52 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted.

We move to compromise 14. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 8. In favor, against, abstentions. I have to check this one.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is rejected. Compromise 9. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 10.

In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 11. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 220. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected.

Compromise 12. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 13. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 15.

In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 16. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 78. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected.

Compromise 1. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 2 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted.

Compromise 3. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 4 by roll-call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted.

Compromise 5. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 6. In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 7.

In favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 81. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 121. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected.

Amendment 130. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 137. In favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 139.

In favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 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 then we move to the final file we will be voting today, which is the European Social Fund. So we start by compromise 1. Who is in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.

Amendment 160. Who is in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 161. Who is in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 2 by roll-call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Then we move to amendment 159 by roll call vote in two parts. We vote first part one. I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is rejected. Now we move to compromise three. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Amendment 174. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions?

Rejected. Compromise four. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions?

Adopted. Compromise five by roll call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Compromise six by roll call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 156. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? I need to check this one because you have not so I open the vote. I close the vote. It's clearly adopted but since you did not raise your hand I could not. Compromise seven.

In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise eight.

In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted. Amendment 189.

In favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected. Amendment 19 by roll call vote.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Now we move to amendment 21 by roll call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is rejected.

Compromise nine. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Amendment 29. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? Rejected.

Compromise 10. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Amendment 37. Who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? I need to check this one.

I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 44. Who is in favor? Who is against?

Abstentions? Adopted. Amendment 45 by roll call vote. I open the vote. I close the vote and it is rejected.

Amendment 46. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Amendment 47. Who is in favor? Against? Abstentions? Rejected.

Compromise 12. In favor? Against? Abstentions? Adopted.

Amendment 53 by roll call vote. I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is rejected. Amendment 56 in favor, against, abstentions, I try again. So in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 13, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 61, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted.

Compromise 14, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 68, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 66, who is in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Amendment 69 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is rejected.

So we move to amendment 70, who is in favor, against, abstentions, I have to check, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 71, who is in favor, against, abstentions adopted. I'm sorry, rejected, sorry, sorry, sorry, rejected, yeah. 72, I was still thinking on the numbers of the previous one.

Amendment 72, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 15 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 76, there is a split vote, we vote part one of four, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Part two of amendment 76, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions, I think I need to check this one, I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Part three of amendment 76, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Part four, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Compromise 16 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted.

Compromise 17, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. Amendment 91, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions, I think it is rejected but I would like to check, I open the vote. Amendment 91. Amendment 91. I close the vote and it is rejected.

Amendment 89, who is in favor, who is against, abstentions adopted. 89. Is it okay or you want... Amendment 90 in favor, against, abstentions rejected. Compromise 18 by roll-call vote, I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted.

Amendment 103: in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 19 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Is someone that is very slow, so please the one that is very slow is making me wait for for for him or her and we are taking a bit longer than than than expected. Compromise 20 by roll-call vote, I open the vote.

So I I close the vote, sorry I can't wait. It's adopted. Amendment 115: in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 116: in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 21: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.

Compromise 22 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote, well done now, and it is adopted. Amendment 125: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 126: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Compromise 23: in favor, against, compromise 23: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.

Compromise 24 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 130: in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 129: in favor, against, abstentions. I need to check this one, I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 131: in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. And Amendment 132 by roll-call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Compromise 25 by roll-call vote, I open the vote.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 136: who is in favor, who is against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 135: who is in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 137: who is in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 138: who is in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.

Amendment 139: who is in favor, against, abstentions, rejected. Compromise 26: who is in favor, against, abstentions, adopted. Amendment 142: who is in favor, who is against, abstentions, rejected. Amendment 146: who is in favor, against, abstentions. I need to check this one, I open the vote.

It's Amendment 146. I close the vote and it is rejected. Amendment 147: who is in favor, who is against, abstentions, rejected. Let's check. I think there were too much much so yeah, I open the vote, 147.

I close the vote and it is adopted. Amendment 148, who is in favor? Who is against? Abstentions? I think it is rejected, but since it's more or less, I open the vote.

Sorry about that. I close the vote and yes, it is rejected. Amendment 149, in favor? Against? Abstentions?

It's rejected because it's a similar, it's the same that the previous one. And we go to the final vote by roll call vote, I open the vote. I close the vote and it is adopted. Congratulations. We finalized the vote.

Okay. We make a break of three minutes to... Ah! So, sorry, I was too fast. So, there we will make a break of 15 minutes.

Ask anything about this video — I analyse its transcript to answer.

European Parliament

Follow upcoming sessions live, transcribed word for word, with AI chat

One free trial opens the AI chat on every session, the biographies of your parliament's members, alerts, and your questions to Claude or ChatGPT.

  • Live transcript, every speaker identified
  • The biography of every member of your parliament, with its assistant
  • Alerts on your keywords, and your questions to Claude or ChatGPT

Every video is free to watch, live and on replay, no account needed.

14-day free trial · cancel anytime

Free trial Learn more

Already have an account? Log in

Keyboard shortcuts

Playback

Play / pause
Space
Back / forward 15 s
←→
Back / forward 10 s
JL
Full screen
F

Chapters and transcript

Previous / next chapter
PN
Search the transcript
/
Turn follow on / off
S
Copy the current sentence as a quote
C
Show this help
?

Inactive while a text field, a button or the chat has focus.