20/03/2009
Topolanek should stop trying to be “funny”
Commenting on Czech Prime Minister Topolanek’s “joke” at the EU summit press conference responding to a question on the lack of women at the top table, the President of PES Women Zita Gurmai said
“If Mr Topolanek thinks it is a joke to describe half of Europe’s citizens as martians he should give up trying to be funny. It is bad enough that Europe, under his presidency, is not taking any extra actions to help women and men threatened by the recession, but to insult women as well is too much. I hope Mr Topolanek is embarrassed. Mr Barroso should be embarrassed too for keeping quiet when he should have said he disagreed.”
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