Quotes From Speeches
"We should be proud to recognize that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria represents today one of the most important (if not the most important) financing mechanism to provide an adequate response to the three pandemics, by providing 65% of international financing for tuberculosis, 65% for malaria and 20% for HIV/AIDS." — Vice-Chair of GFATM at the Replenishment Meeting of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Durban (South Africa), 4/5 July 2006
I see four areas in particular where urgent action is needed to reduce the gap between men and women: 1. Ending abuse, violence and sexual slavery 2. Ensuring equal pay, social protection, and pension provision 3. Providing affordable, quality childcare for all women who want it 4. Allowing women to develop their careers – as much in the public as in the private sector — Debate for European Parliament Elections: Women's votes: why they matter this year more than ever, Ljubljana (Slovenia), 3 March 2009
What is really happening with the place of Europe in the World? Many different opinions are being discussed and only history will really tell, but we are in a major transformation phase and witness the transition from economic globalisation towards an increasingly political globalisation and a geopolitical rebalancing. — A medio camino de la Presidencia belga y del Trío Gobierno económico y Acción exterior, Madrid (Spain), 10 November 2010
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