The MEP intervened in relation to Women’s Day, “an annual assessment of the progress in equality sheds light and shadows lights because although progress is very slow, and shadows because these advances are under threat as the situation changes. Thus, the economic crisis and austerity have hit much harder for women, impoverishing them to despair. He added that “I deeply regret that Spain, with the Socialist government was exemplary in progress and legislation on equality, should now be criticized by the European Union because budget cuts have severely affected the availability and quality of care services children and they have become more expensive. That is the hypocrisy of the right: the garments is torn by paragraph 45 in the name of life and children, but the first crisis cut and care for impoverished children. It is, really, grotesque”.//