According to the representative of the European Commission in Slovakia, Vladimír Šucha, the DNA of Slovaks is flawed, and this must be changed in order to achieve gender equality.
The wording that caused great indignation was announced on May 9 in Bratislava, at a conference organized by CVTI, the Žijem vedu association and the ESET Foundation. It is enough to say that Šucha is an old biker among the Brussels people, and in 2020 he ran in the 12th place in the colors of the progressive PS. The main topic of the conference was gender equality, in connection with which Šucha expressed his conviction that it is necessary to achieve full, 1:1 gender equality in society, even with coercive force. The conservative newspaper Postoj drew attention to the conversation revealing the authoritarian features of EU technocratic thinking.
"This will not change without clear rules, principles and strict mandatory indicators. In Slovakia, everyone falls to the ground as soon as someone brings up the possibility of a quota, but my experience shows that it simply does not work without it. Public thinking must change. Moreover, in such a way that the political functionaries will be forced to do so," he said.Šucha also criticized the fact that the conference was opened by three men.
"Now we are three men sitting here, but this should not happen in the European Commission. I was shocked that this is considered a completely normal case in Slovakia. But with pressure and a cultural paradigm shift, [gender equality] will gradually enter everyone's DNA and the situation will gradually change," he added.According to him, to achieve this, it would be necessary to introduce quotas, because he believes that without this, it would simply not be possible to achieve the change.
Šucha has been working for the European Commission since 2006, and from 2022 he is the head of the Commission's representation in Slovakia. In 2020, he ran on the electoral list of Progresívne Slovensko. Even before 2006, he worked at European and international institutions connected to Brussels. He was a member of the delegation negotiating Slovakia's EU accession in Brussels.
