"The day that we no longer celebrate Women's Day, we will have achieved perfect equality."
Ex-Commissioner Viviane Reding once remarked.
We are still far from that day !
In a more nuanced way, Simone de Beauvoir advised:
"Never forget that it only needs a political, economic or religious crisis to cast doubt on women's rights. These will never be acquired rights. You will have to stay vigilant your whole life."
Open letter to Mr Juncker, President of the European Commission
Subject: Need to ensure the effective rebuttal of defamatory attacks on the institutions and their staff by anti-European lobbyists and media
Mr President,
Commission:
Mr Jean Claude Juncker
Mr Alexander Italianer
European Parliament:
Mr Antonio Tajani
Mr Klaus Welle
European Council
/ Council of the EU:
Mr Donald Tusk/ Mr Louis Grech
Mr Jeppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen
Committee of the Regions:
Mr Markku Markkula
Mr Jiří Buriánek
Economic and Social Committee:
Mr Georges Dassis
Mr Luís Planas
Court of Auditors:
Mr Klaus-Heiner Lehne
Mr Eduardo Ruiz García
Court of Justice:
Mr Koen Lenaerts
Mr Alfredo Calot Escobar
A year later, is our security and that of our children sufficiently taken into account?
The 22 March will mark a sad anniversary, that of the attacks at Zaventem and in the Maelbeek metro station, which caused so much physical and psychological damage. Some of our colleagues were among the victims of those barbaric acts. We wish to reconfirm our sympathy for, and solidarity with, all the victims and their families.
The Federation associates itself with all those celebrating international women’s day.
We have the pleasure to offer you this virtual sprig of mimosa, the floral symbol of women’s day, but 8 March is not to be mixed up with Saint Valentine’s day:
it is a day for recalling and standing up for women’s rights.
THE FFPE ASSOCIATES ITSELF WITH THE SOLEMN TRIBUTE TO FORMER
CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL
The FFPE fully associates itself with the decision taken at the highest level to pay a solemn tribute to Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Saturday 1 July in Strasbourg.
There is no need to retrace Helmut Kohl's personal and political journey to understand that he was a true statesman, not only for Germany but for Europe as a whole!