Commission withdraws its proposition on maternity leave

The European Commission was not throwing about empty threats: since the negotiations between the EP and the Council are at a standstill, on 1 July the executive withdrew its draft directive on maternity leave. “The Commission considers that prolonging the current deadlock by leaving a proposal on the table that has no chance of being adopted is not doing anything to improve the real day-to-day lives of working mothers,” it said in a statement. The Commission promises to “present a…