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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7886
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/women

EP call for balanced representation in all political fields - Divergences over suitability of quotas

Strasbourg, 22/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament followed the rapporteur from the Women's Rights Committee, the Greek Socialist Anna Karamanou, by calling for the representation of women in all political fields, at the national and international level, not to be below 40%. The EPP group was still against the inclusion of this percentage, but a relatively close majority (281 for, 199 against and 18 abstentions) was seen for the original text. The same applies for the paragraph...

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