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"Mr President, adopting a directive does not necessarily mean that reality is as we would wish it. We have a good example of this here. According to the Commission’s assessment, the situation regarding the health and safety of pregnant women looks fine, but that is certainly only on paper, for is that also the way it looks in reality? I am not so sure. The pace in the labour market is more hectic than ever. Great efficiency is demanded, and women are supposed to work as if they were not pregnant, even if they are. It is stressful, and it is unhealthy both for the pregnant woman and the foetus. We know this, because investigations have proven this to be the case. The European Parliament and ourselves as representatives of the people are entitled to know whether the legislation we adopt also actually works in practice. I think we have an example here of the Commission’s doing all too little in this area. The message from Parliament to the Commission should therefore be that the work which has been done is not good enough. It needs to be re-done. We must know whether the legislation is working. The Commission’s purely legal analyses now already show that there is a need for further protection. I think there is a greater need to discover what suitable protection consists in, and there should be stricter rules governing dismissal during pregnancy. The Commission must go back to the drawing board, set to work again and table the necessary proposals. The European social model is characterised by the fact that we have a high level of protection. This should be an area – and this remark is aimed at the Liberal Group which has adopted a very different view – in which the EU should have a big influence. It should not be left to the individual Member States. Women’s participation in the labour market is a prerequisite of our achieving the ambitious goals we have set ourselves regarding employment and the modernisation of the European social model. Modernisation and efforts in this area are therefore important. They cannot be left to the Member States. Europe as a whole needs to attend to these issues."@en1
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