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Petra Hielkema

Petra Hielkema

Jurist

Sep 30, 2026

6:29
So yeah, I think it's a really interesting point that you make and...
6:33
Yeah, and I would offer also to be fair to managers.
6:37
It's a difficult topic to discuss.
6:40
There's also a lot of rules of what you can and cannot discuss.
6:43
So how do you organize a good dialogue on managing care and career also on the work floor? And I've seen examples that were very helpful where anyone who would become a parent, so this was there for men and women, who would become a parent the first time, the second time, would have to fill out a form for HR showing that there was a dialogue with the manager on the career planning after the birth.
7:10
Like, are you going to come back full time? If not, are you going to do that shorter? And by putting that into the governance in the company through HR, you organize a dialogue that might be a difficult one to start either for you because you're pregnant, you're going to step out, people will be busy, you might feel even guilty.
7:31
You might not even know what your plan is.

15 MINS LATER

22:33
How do you balance having three children who probably all have three different demands on their mom? How do you balance having a career and a family? Do you have any advice or tips or even challenges that you found along the way that you've managed to overcome?
9:12
So, so Belal, how do you assess the key obstacles today for Europe to achieve this union? And what forms of supervision im- being, you know, an improvement you would expect to make it a success?
9:26
Yeah.
9:26
So the Savings and Investment Union is the new term, but not exactly the same as the Capital Market Union.
9:34
But I think it's this clear notion that the reality is that the world is dealing with more fragmentation, that competitiveness is part of that new reality.
9:44
And how do you position yourself as EU? That's the first question.
9:48
Now, then comes the realization that we actually have a lot.
9:51
I mean, we have a single market, which is unique in, in the world of twenty-seven economies closely working together, open borders for trade, et cetera, if you look at it how it was meant to be.

7 MINS LATER

16:59
But I wanted to ask you from a European public policy perspective, which of these gaps concerns you the most today, and what do you see as the most critical steps to make progress in closing these protection gaps?

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