Robert Kilroy-Silk (NI). – Mr President, the report states that it is essential to create the new Europe on the basis of the creative cooperation of cultures. No it is not! Cultures and men are largely responsible for being the greatest repressors of women in Europe. And yet white, western liberal women – like those represented here – run scared of attacking the dangerous nonsense of multiculturalism and turn a blind eye to the way in which ethnic minority women in places like my constituency, for example, are abused; where women are repressed and treated as chattels of men; where they are not allowed to be educated; where they are not allowed to go to work; where they are not allowed to go outside; where they are ghettoised within the ghetto. Worse, they are genitally mutilated; they are told to cover their bodies; they are forced into marriages; they are the object of honour killings, which the police have testified in Derbyshire and the metropolitan area.

If we are to give women full rights, they need to be liberated from cultures and from men. They need to be emancipated so that their lives can be equal and enriched and poverty can be eliminated. The question is, do the women here have the balls to carry out the job?