All forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, as well as LGBTIQ+ people, should be treated “as a particularly serious crime with a cross-border dimension”, say MEPs.
In plenary, MEPs adopted, on Thursday 16 September, a report by Malin Björk (The Left, Sweden) and Diana Riba (Greens/EFA, Spain) calling on the European Commission to take the necessary steps to extend the European list of crimes to gender-based violence.
The addition of gender-based violence as a new...