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Women´s Day - 8 March

"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 the Presidents and Secretaries General of the EU institutions

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

The attacks of 22 March 2016

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.
 

RIP former chancellor Helmut Kohl

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!

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