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Europe IN 250 Words: We lose the solidarity of European social democrats at our peril.

Europe IN 250 Words: We lose the solidarity of European social democrats at our peril.

by Angela Phillips | 16 June 2016 | Blog, Europe in 250 words

Why working parents need European solidarity to secure their rights. In the mid 1970s UK maternity leave arrangements were among the best in Europe. Progress ground to a halt in 1979 with the election of a Conservative Government, which immediately doubled the...

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