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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State of play of the Maternity Leave Directive (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111025.31.2-608-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Frédérique Ries2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Mouvement Réformateur (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, you are looking at one worried dad there. The European Parliament voted on this Maternity Leave Directive a year ago, almost to the day. One year on, we are still at an impasse. The standoff was fairly inevitable and, given our ambitions, I have to say that it was underestimated at the time. The issue has been put on ice, even though the Council, as colegislator, is required to take a view, irrespective of the red lines drawn by the Member States. To cut a long story short, it is the procedure rather than the substance that is really at stake this evening, but for the record, my position on the substance has not changed. Should we increase the number of women in work? Yes. Should we promote a better work-life balance? Yes, of course. Should we address population issues? Again, yes. Yet by asking for too much – 20 weeks at full pay – we are indirectly paving the way for further recruitment discrimination against the very women that we want to protect, who, by the way, did not ask for this. First the Hungarian Presidency and now the Polish Presidency have come up against this issue, only to admit defeat a week ago in Kraków. So, although I have my doubts about the degree of flexibility promised by some Members, given that it is imperative that we extricate ourselves from this situation, I have a question for the representatives of the Council. Why can we not go back to the Commission proposal, as suggested by Ms Záborská and as endorsed by Mr Tarabella just now? Why have you not put forward a common position that would also allow our Parliament to play its part fully as colegislator?"@en1
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