Traduction de «Parent unique » (Français → Anglais) :

Initiatives on Better Migration Management, and proposals on Border Management Implementation of the Digital Single Market, Follow-up to the Single Market Strategy, a Space Strategy for Europe, and a European Defence Action Plan A Circular Economy, Next Steps for a Sustainable European Future, and legislation to implement the Energy Union A New Skills Agenda for Europe, a New Start for Working Parents, and a Pillar of Social Rights as part of a deepening of Economic and Monetary Union A Corporate Tax package and an Action Plan on VAT

I would also like to stress that the Barcelona criteria do not involve forcing a single solution on anyone but providing a real choice, a real choice for parents because, ladies and gentlemen, the fundamental point has been made in the debate and in my opinion very clearly in the last contribution, that genuinely attentive and loving parents naturally have a great ability to distinguish how to decide at a given moment, in a given phase of family life, or in a given situation, what will be best for their children.

– Mr President, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Mr Toubon’s report this morning, not just on behalf of my group, as coordinator, but also on behalf of my colleague, our Vice-Chairman Mrs Thyssen, who sadly is not able to be with us this morning because she has had to rush back to Belgium, where her parents are not at all well.

Children should not be faced with separation from either parent simply on the basis of the absence of a biological link or a failure in the law to recognise the existence of a parental relationship.

Supplementary benefits or specific allowances are provided in certain cases: if the parent/guardian is raising a child alone (for example the 'extra' allowances in Denmark, or the single/sole parent allowance in France and in Sweden); in the case of children with disabilities (Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Netherlands, Austria and Portugal); in the case of families with many children (Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Austria); in the case of multiple births (Spain, France, Ireland, Finland and Sweden, where an extension of the period covered is also provided); in order to help low-income families with at least three children (the f ...[+++]amily supplement in France and Ireland).

The consent of the parents must be taken into consideration and is indeed desirable, but only insofar as it provides proof of abandonment and constitutes a means of deliberate, selfless cooperation with society for the greater good of the child;