✔ The right to at least 10 working days of paid paternity leave for fathers and equivalent second parents.
✔ Two months of non-transferable and paid parental leave, to create the appropriate conditions for a more balanced distribution of caring responsibilities within the family.
✔ Member states will set an adequate level of payment or allowance for the minimum non-transferable period of parental leave.
✔ Member states must offer 5 days per year of carer’s leave for workers providing personal care to a relative or a person living in the same household and with a serious medical condition or age-related impairment.

📌 Schengen: MEPs adopt their position on temporary checks at national borders
➡️ Schengen Area is what allows us to travel through Europe without needing to show our passports or having a visa. Member states can temporary reintroduce temporary checks at national borders: that’s what France did after the attacks in 2017.

In a plenary vote, the Parliament confirmed that its position on the revision of the current rules is to reduce the initial period for border checks from six months (as is currently the case) to two months, and to limit any extension to a maximum period of one year, rather than current maximum limit of two years.

📌 Common Food Market: AGRI is on the way to improve EU farm policy
➡️ The Agriculture Committee approved the first batch of proposals to improve EU farm policy so that it better meets farmers’ and consumers’ expectations starting from 2020. To be better prepared for potential market turbulence, MEPs suggest setting up a single EU observatory for agricultural markets, that would focus on a wide range of sectors, including cereals, sugar, olive oil, fruits and vegetables, wine, milk and meat. The observatory should collect statistical data on production, supply, prices, profits, imports and exports, and issue early market disturbance warnings.

📌 #FutureOfEurope: Swedish PM reminds the EU to stand up for democracy at home
➡️ In his address to MEPs, Prime Minister Löfven stressed that the EU must step up to defend its fundamental values to create hope for the future and that the most strategic way to fight the forces that challenge those values is to deliver on employment, security, migration and climate change.

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