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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11251
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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) women

Commission admits powerlessness over female genital mutilation

Strasbourg, 11/02/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 10 February in Strasbourg, MEPs had the Commission up against the wall on the question of the zero tolerance policy against female genital mutilation. They wanted to know whether the Commission was indeed putting the 2013 action plan into practice. The European Commission appears, at this stage, to be mainly concentrating on data gathering.

During a plenary session debate, Iratxe Garcia Perez (S&D, Spain) asked the Commissioner responsible...

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