European Parliament 17 July 2001, WRITTEN QUESTION E-2137/01 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Commission. African immigrants arriving on Spain's Costa del Sol.

In many EU countries domestic violence, including sexual violence against wives or female partners, is punished, with sanctions including banning a husband or partner guilty of such an offence from the family home. Despite this legislation in the present Member States the scale of violence against women continues to be alarming and substantial. Can the Commission say: 1.