Is there a European #MeToo movement?

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A #Metoo demonstration in Paris against sexual assault in October 2017. AFP

By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow

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While France has known since the end of November, a flood of testimonies from women who denounce harassment or sexual assault committed by politicians, What about the rest of Europe?

14 years after the start of the #MeToo movement have things changed?

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Direction the United Kingdom, where in the Parliament of Westminster and the government in recent years several ministers and deputies have been accused of sexual harassment. In 2017 two ministers even resigned and since 2018, a mechanism within parliament allows complaints of sexual assault to be lodged, but the system is struggling to correct the problem. This is the report by

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In Italy there may be a before and after the Greta Beckalia affair. This name is that of a journalist who received a hand to the buttocks live on television. While the subjects of sexual violence suffered by women has not yet given rise to any public debate in Italy. This time, the images of this football fan who acts with impunity aroused indignation! It was at the end of November, the supporter was suspended from the stadium for 3 years. The story of our correspondent,

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And in Germany, a poll carried out last February among women MPs lifted the veil on a particularly misogynistic climate within the German parliament. This poll, carried out as part of a major survey by the weekly Der Spiegel, reveals that the German political world is not immune to verbal violence, sometimes even physical violence against women.

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In the Balkans, it is only a few months ago that the voices of women victims of sexual assault in theater and cinema have finally been released. It all started in Serbia, after actress Milena Radulovic testified to a Serbian tabloid. Since then, other women have expressed themselves on the web in a group called " 

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And with the Romanian neighbor, we are still a long way from freeing the voice of women.

In this eastern country, the time has not come for #MeToo, the fight is more about the lack of equality of opportunity between the two sexes.

The German foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has just published a report on this subject.

It is overwhelming as the inequalities between men and women are glaring in Romania.

Example: The country occupies the penultimate place in the EU in terms of the participation of women in the labor market.

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