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"I am sorry that Parliament has today voted against a proposal concerning the option of six months’ parental leave in connection with the birth or adoption of children. Under this option, a Member of the European Parliament would be replaced in accordance with rules governing definitive dismissal.
Under the present Rules, an MEP can certainly be on leave, but he or she is not entitled to be replaced. In that way, the political group has one MEP fewer, with the same workload having to be distributed among fewer MEPs. That is especially hard on parties from smaller states with few MEPs. There is therefore pressure on the MEP concerned to take up his or her place again as soon as possible, to the detriment of the MEP’s family and children.
In Parliament, we often state that it must be possible to combine work and family life, and we urge governments to take measures to make that possible. The same thing must also apply, of course, to Parliament as a place of work.
Just as new parents in other types of work are entitled to leave, so too should Members of the European Parliament be. We must have Rules of Procedure which reflect a positive view of family and children, something not expressed by the present Rules. It might, moreover, be questioned whether the latter really are democratic, because they make it more difficult for people who are at an age when they might want children or a family to stand as candidates and assume the responsibilities of MEPs."@en1
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