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About a third of all women in the European Union have violence at some time in their life. A survey from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights that around 62 million women over the age of 15 have experienced physical or sexual violence. The agency over 42,000 women across Europe. The women details about violence at home and at work. This domestic abuse, rape, stalking, sexual harassment and online bullying. The survey that 22 per cent of women from violence by a husband or boyfriend. It also that 67 per cent of the women did not serious domestic violence to the police.

The EU that laws have to to women. They want to domestic violence a public offence. At the moment police in many countries cannot domestic violence because it in the home. The agency's director said the violence against women shows there , "an extensive human rights abuse" in all EU countries. He added: "These survey figures simply cannot and should not be ." He said violence against women was a huge problem that everyone, saying: "The enormity of the problem is proof that violence against women does not just a few women only. It impacts on society every day." The agency said there a strong link between alcohol and the violence.