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Gândul leads with a front-page warning to mothers-to-be: "If you give birth after 1 January, you will be back on the job within a year." As part of its austerity package, on 6 December the government decided to cut back on Romanian maternity leave - one of the most generous in Europe - by 50%. On the same day, EUobserver reports that employment ministers in Europe’s 27 member states rejected a European Parliament to introduce 14 to 20 weeks of maternity leave on full pay — yet another decision motivated by the need to reduce budget deficits.
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