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in 1992 the EU set a minimum of 14 weeks for maternity leave in 2010 the European Parliament voted to extend it to 18 weeks with two weeks for fathers but four years on there's still no agreement with member states and the commission wants to pull the whole thing out MEPS however want to persevere we asked two MEPS for their take irache Garcia Perez from the Socialists Democrats and Anna Maria kabil from the European People's Party are you for or against what is on the table from the commission parental well to use the wording maternity leave nowadays is really a set back for us women we should talk about parental leave shared responsibility for children what do you think of having a defined number of weeks for maternity leave are enormous differences between member states on what kind of family policies we have adopted also tradition and so on and we cannot have it one size fits all so it's very good to talk about safety of pregnant women breast feeding women and women who just have children but again this is more a national issue in terms of health system and it's I think up to member states to decide how many weeks are not weeks is maternity leave discriminatory for women should we talk about parental leave with a shared responsibility for children this directive is discriminatory towards women it it still gives a message that women should should stay at home when a family has children or where a couple has children and that of course affects the women Career Development possibilities what would be the duration of such a time off well the key principle that that is a problematic in this resolution is that it's not shared it even says that we should have a separate legislation for men so it says you know that the commission should propose a separate legislation to give minimum 10 days to men so why would you have 20 weeks for women but 10 days to man we put discrimination inside our text if you put a minimum at European level as mandatory you would again impose on countries where there is already a great participation of men in taking care of their children uh forced to go back should there be a parental leave like in Sweden our role at European level as uh opinion Builders we should be also at the Forefront of raising awareness pushing and pressing member states to really give uh women the possibility to advance in career by changing the attitude by involving the business Community like in Sweden it's one of the most successful business community and yet there are extremely generous parental Lees where men are also taking it so it's is not affecting business but that we impose it with a legislation that is one siiz fits all and make it mandatory it means that if I am uh in for instance I have my career and I don't want to take more than 10 days but my husband or my partner wants to take it I'm obliged to take it you cannot oblige me to take it to take my leave when do you expect a solution with the Luxembourg presidency I hope they will present something that is called paternal uh parental and not maternal and I will not present the separate legislation on paternal that will already be an important step forward if there is a discussion on the 18 or 20 weeks will it be a no on your part not mandatory not mandatory seems to much