{"id":206632,"date":"2026-04-29T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/meps-with-new-borns-can-delegate-their-vote-but-only-if-they-are-women\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:49:05","slug":"meps-with-new-borns-can-delegate-their-vote-but-only-if-they-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/meps-with-new-borns-can-delegate-their-vote-but-only-if-they-are-women\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs with new-borns can delegate their vote \u2013 but only if they are women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament has approved a rule allowing proxy voting for new mothers before and after childbirth. However, it raises questions about gender equality, as it does not cover male MEPs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/29\/meps-with-new-borns-can-delegate-their-vote-but-only-if-they-are-women\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Parliament has approved a rule allowing proxy voting for new mothers before and after childbirth. However, it raises questions about gender equality, as it does not cover male MEPs. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":206633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}