Strasbourg, 23/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - The 1996 directive on parental leave provides for an individual right, for both men and women, of at least three months, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights stipulates that everyone is entitled to parental leave when a child is born or adopted. The Member States have applied the directive for the past two years but officials of European institutions have (in the case of childbirth) four months for women (but only two days for men, and, in the case...