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Parental leave: the social partners

(B2) It was John Monks, the General Secretary of the ETUC and Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of Business Europe (European employers), who went to see the European Commissioner for Employment, Vladimir Spidla, together, to ask him to give them time to negotiate on parental leave. The enemy brothers thus seemed reconciled in their desire to see the Commission avoid getting involved in this question which had been the subject of a European agreement between social partners at the end of 1995 before being transformed into a directive in 1996.

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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