One third of women in the European Union have suffered physical or sexual violence and 70% have suffered sexual harassment at work. In the French state, a woman is murdered every two days by her partner or former partner, and in Germany, a woman is victims every hour of domestic violence. Every five hours, a woman is raped in the Spanish state, while in Greece, 14 women are raped every day. In the CAV, according to Emakunde estimates, 4,177 women were victims of gender violence in 2020. There are men in the European Union who kill 50 women a week. They kill us. I would like to say that we are. And this is only a visible part of the emergency, as most violence against women is not denounced.

The EU is seen as an example of human rights, justice and freedom; it is clear that male violence is not a criterion in this assessment. Proof of this is that the EU does not demand from the Member States any real commitment to this social scourge. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Hungary have not ratified the Istanbul Convention as the main legal instrument for combating violence against women. In this regard, the European Parliament has agreed in recent months on two key reports: one proposes incorporating gender violence as a new criminal area 83(1) of the EU Operating Treaties. Article 10 and the other examine the influence of the right of custody on women and children in cases of domestic violence. It must be borne in mind that these reports have had to be negotiated with Liberals and the Right: there is not much room for radical feminism in the European institutions. And yet, I would say that significant progress has been made.

In the first of these, Parliament has called for gender violence to be recognised as a European crime. Indeed, the Member States' measures are varied and scarce, and this asymmetry has fatal consequences. For example, the aggressors can rest assured in one State, while in another they may be persecuted by justice. Even if it seems incredible, there are stronger joint efforts in the management of corruption and cybercrime than in the fight against male violence. The report, in line with the EBFT, argues that this type of violence meets the requirements to be considered a particularly serious and cross-border crime. If the Council approved Parliament’s request, it would open up the possibility of setting minimum standards among States, strengthening coordination and increasing resources, to give impetus to prevention, common punitive measures and to the protection and reparation of victims.

In the second report, Parliament has made it clear that male violence is incompatible with shared custody. The protection of mother and children and human rights are an absolute priority, and often the aggressor uses custody to ensure control and violence against the mother. In line with health organizations, including the World Health Organization, it has asked states not to approve in court the false alienation syndrome of parents GAS and has proposed to discuss the possibility of banning it. In the case of femicide, parliamentarians have defended the systematic denial of parental authority to the defendant, as judges have sometimes had the great idea of leaving their children with the murderer of their mother. In addition, they have called for enhanced coordination between criminal cases and civil cases of discrimination and custody on the grounds of male violence, as well as in cross-border cases. Another pillar of the report is money, which the Member States and the Commission have been asked to increase economic resources and, above all, that economic difficulties are not an obstacle to women denouncing violence.

The theme seems obsolete, repetitive, tired, uncomfortable. But if it's unpleasant to read again about violence against women, imagine what violence is or live under its threat. Let us see if on 25 November this year our representatives, by inertia, continue to make their way with measures that go to the root, exalting their constituents rather than humiliating them, their fucking and sexual traffickers of girls. Even though the attackers were renowned footballers, the Police has arrested the attackers.