“The draft guide released yesterday by mistake is absurd,” said Clément Beaune on Wednesday during questions to the government. In the viewfinder of the Secretary of State for European Affairs, “the guidelines on inclusive communication”, published on the intranet of the European Commission by the services of the Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli. This document recommends in particular to prefer the expression “holiday period” to “Christmas period”, or even “dear colleagues” to “ladies and gentlemen”, for the sake of inclusiveness for non-Christians and non-binaries. .
The leak of this document therefore jumped up to Clément Beaune, who however wrongly speaks of a “project” disseminated “by mistake”. According to information from the Opinion, the dissemination of these guidelines was indeed perfectly intentional on the part of the Maltese Commissioner, who also failed to circulate the document for opinion before publication. And even if the commissioner referred to a “work in progress”, the document was indeed considered successful by her services.
LGBT legislation. Enough to wonder about the real intentions of the social democrat, who had already taken center stage in mid-November by receiving members of the Femyso association, close to the Muslim brothers. Especially since Helena Dalli, professor of sociology who entered politics at the end of the 1990s, was not born overnight. She has asserted herself as the great architect of Maltese LGBT legislation, considered the most progressive on the continent by the ILGA Europe association.
“She certainly did not do it on purpose to create controversy,” says Cyrus Engerer, a Maltese MEP close to the commissioner. She really believes in what she does. How can the Commission go after Poland and Hungary if it does not resolve its internal diversity problems? “
First to occupy the new post of Equality Commissioner – without any general administrative direction under her rule – the Maltese indeed takes her role to heart, but until then suffered from complete anonymity and almost political weight. -non-existent. “She is a woman of combat, very progressive, but not for all that ideologue, defends the Macronist MEP Irène Tolleret. I don’t know what his intention was, but this controversy allows people to talk about equality issues. So much the better, because there is still a lot of work to do. “
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