Children of same-sex couples, centre-right says no to EU regulation

The rights of children of same-sex parents end up at the center of political debate.

After the Municipality of Milan was forced to interrupt the registration of children born to same-parent couples in Italy on the basis of a circular from the Ministry of the Interior through the prefect, the controversy was ignited by the centre-right's no to the European certificate of filiation which provides that parenthood established in one Member State is recognized in any other Member State, without any special procedure, whether it is a question of children of heterosexual couples, same-sex parents, children adopted or born with surrogacy where it is permitted.

The European Policies Commission of the Senate has in fact approved with 11 votes in favor out of 18 a majority resolution (presented by the rapporteur, the former Foreign Minister Giulio Santagata) contrary to the proposed regulation enough to pass the proposal.

The text of the resolution - presented by Terzi - argues that the obligation to recognize the EU certificate of filiation does not respect the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, so if it were adopted it would be an invasion of European law over national law.

In particular on surrogacy, a form of assisted procreation used by gay and heterosexual couples currently prohibited in Italy and which it is feared will be circumvented with the ok to the proposed regulation.

"It was a question of recognizing equality and civilization. We are now on the Hungarian right", comments the deputy of the Democratic Party Alessandro Zan on social media after the rejection.

A concept reinforced by the group leader of the party in the Senate, Simona Malpezzi, according to which the "regulation proposed by the European Union was not going to affect Italian laws and regulations at all but simply ensured that children, with a status of children in a given EU country, could have the same status as children in the European country where they move with their parents, thus always putting the priority right of minors first".

With this decision "Giorgia Meloni and her followers assume a sensational responsibility - commented the senators of the 5 Star Movement Dolores Bevilacqua and Pietro Lorefice -, to bring a country like Italy on the axis of Orban and Poland on the matter of rights".

Speaking of the stop to the registrations of the children of same-parent couples to which the Municipality of Milan has been forced, Mayor Sala defines it as "a political and social step backwards", once again underlining the legislative vacuum that the mayors have had to make up for and calls for a national law to allow, as happens in other European countries, the registration of the child of a same-sex couple.

ANSA agency

Sala against the stop to the recognition of children of homoparental couples - Politics

The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala intervenes on the issue of the stop to the transcription of children of same-parent couples imposed on the Municipality. "It is a step backwards from a political and social point of view, I will continue this battle, a law is needed" (ANSA)