Gráinne Ní Aodha, PAThere is a lack of urgency from governments to tackle violence against women across Europe, MEP for Dublin Frances Fitzgerald has said. Ms Fitzgerald and Swedish socialist MEP Evin Incir are leading the process to introduce EU-wide laws tackling domestic violence and violence against women. But some member states are against including a consent-based approach to rape in the proposed EU directive, something Ms Fitzgerald said indicated a “lack of urgency” to tackle gender-based violence. “Now, you can read that however you like, the way I read it is there isn’t enough political motivation at the moment from some member states to include rape,” Ms Fitzgerald said. “They don’t say ‘it’s because we don’t like the definition’.

Source: The Herald October 22, 2023 11:10 UTC