Brussels, 12/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - EU enlargement to the East raises problems of a cultural, political, economic, sociological and social kind as far as equal opportunities between men and women are concerned. Such problems are difficult to resolve because of the influence of the Church in these countries but also an almost unmoveable patriarchy, and the worrying phenomenon of the "trade in women". These remarks were made on several occasions during the hearing organised on 10 September...