Traduction de «Alternatives to Sandbags for Temporary Flood Protection » (Anglais → Français) :

Over 800 soldiers, sailors and air personnel have helped with dyke reinforcement, sandbagging, protection of infrastructure and houses, maintenance of the central roads and evacuations of civilians from flood ravaged areas.

The proposal for a directive provided for significant advances from the point of view of guaranteeing equal treatment of men and women engaged in an activity in a self-employed capacity, assisting spouses included. It sought, for example, to deal with the obstacles preventing women from taking up a self-employed occupation and to that end made provision for positive action or specific measures to enable the underrepresented sex to engage in such activity more readily. As regards the establishment of companies, Member States were called upon to take binding measures to ensure that national law would no longer rule out the possibility for ...[+++]businesses to be set up between spouses or life partners. Maternity protection was to be granted to self-employed women and assisting spouses or recognised partners (they were to be entitled to the maternity leave provided for in Directive 92/85/EEC and to an allowance at least equivalent to any sickness allowance payable under national law; and temporary replacement services were to be offered as an alternative to the allowance). Assisting spouses were to enjoy a level of social security at least equal to the provision for self-employed workers, and it was to be granted on the same terms. However, the proposal did not alter the system allowing the spouses of self-employed workers to join contribution-based schemes on a voluntary basis.

(b) family relationships, in accordance with Article 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as concerns the nature and solidity of the third-country national’s family relationship and the existence of family ties with his/her country of origin and the duration of his/her stay in the Member State; families accompanied by one or more minors should not be subject of any coercive measure and alternatives to tempor ...[+++]ary custody shall be given priority;

It is not a question of rejecting these people – they have the right to live as families – but of the Commission thinking twice about it and of their being subject to a future directive which would include persons under temporary and alternative protection, while we await the future harmonisation of the Union’s asylum policy.