“I want to empower people. Be loud. Don’t be nice. If you are nice, you will get nothing”, Katrin Langensiepen (Greens/EFA, German) - one of the few MEPs with a visible disability - hammered home on Wednesday 31 January at a reception organised at the European Parliament by the European Disability Forum (EDF), in the presence of members of the European Parliament’s Disability Intergroup.
These words set the tone for the event, which was intended to launch an appeal to “advance...