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Yesterday morning, on 18 November and only a day before top EU jobs are decided, my female Members of the European Parliament  (MEP) colleagues and I left the warmth of our EP offices to march together to Schuman square, where we demonstrated for a

Saturday 17 October was a special day for French women, and for anyone who happened to be in Paris, myself included. It is not every day that you see over 15,000 people filling the Bastille behind banners that proudly call for «une réelle

On the weekend my friend and colleague Poul Nyrup Rasmussen published an appeal to vote in this week’s European elections. I wholeheartedly support this, and would like to add a special call to women voters:Dear Sisters, dear friends:You have a

After my trip to Berlin I went to Vienna to meet women candidates for the Austrian Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), then after a busy weekend’s campaigning in Hungary, last Tuesday I travelled on to Marseille to join my very good friend Martine

Last month I explained on this blog why the PES is THE party of gender equality. Well the European Women’s Lobby has now confimed that. It has just published its European election ‘gender audit’, which gives the conservatives (EPP) and

Last week I was at an event on women in politics held in the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), titled “More SPD for Europe”. I was joined there by SPD Chairman Franz Müntefering, a true working class hero

Over the years as an MEP I have met many remarkable people. In late 2007 I was in Kigali, Rwanda and I was fortunate to meet Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, the Executive Secretary of Rwanda’s National Commission to Fight AIDS. She explained that women in

Today I am joining with two excellent women’s rights campaigners, Edite Estrela and Anne van Lancker, to mark International Day of Families. I urge you to read this appeal and to leave a comment below to express your support. On this International

I am back in Hungary now after the final plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. That's it now: the current Parliament will not meet again, and the make-up of the next one is yet to be decided... I would like to take this

This Saturday 9th May is a date everyone should have highlighted and underlined in their calendar: it's Europe Day, an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we live in a peaceful, integrated and diverse European Union. And if one thing is more