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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I heard and appreciated the heartfelt tone with which the Council representative introduced this debate. However, I must say that genuine problems unfortunately remain, despite the care and respect shown for Parliament.
Non-implementation of the directive results in a number of serious consequences for the health of mothers and children, for the respect for people’s fundamental rights, which have been built over a long period of time, and, in my view, also has negative effects on employment. I do not understand how we can achieve the EU 2020 goals unless we have tools to increase the rate of employment of women, starting with the directive on maternity and paternity leave. It will also not be possible to tackle the falling demographic trend, often cited as one of Europe’s future problems, unless concrete action is taken to support families that decide to have children.
Therefore, we need to make an effort to rapidly make this directive a reality and, allow me to say so, this topic of the difficulties caused by the crisis really does not stand up. Do we think the crisis will last forever and therefore we are not going to defend women and motherhood now? Do we think that priority choices do not need to be made in the crisis and that everything is blurred together? If we believe in the goals that we have written down, we need to indicate what the priority policies are, even in the crisis. In my view, this is one of them."@en1
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