European Parliament
A7-0160/2012
David Campbell Bannerman  (ECR ),
Blue-card answer.
– Ms Morin-Chartier, I agree with that. I accept in this report that career breaks actually cause a lot of loss of income and affect this. As I say, I am very much in favour in the thrust of it. What I am saying is that this should be down to nation states to do and should not be enforced – which this legislation associated with a good report does. That is the problem. It is not the report, because that is a very good report in many respects. It is the legislation, done top-down from the EU, which I object to. The great thrust of it is very good, but it should be done through nation states.

