From our correspondent in Brussels
This is a proposal that should make waves in the EU.
The European Commission presented, on Wednesday, a text aimed at ensuring that children can benefit, throughout the Union, from the rights attached to filiation.
At present, these rights are only partially taken into account.
It relates solely to the free movement of persons - a cardinal value of the Union - with the possibility for a child to enter and stay in another Member State with his parents.
“This has been clearly affirmed by the European Court of Justice”
, underlines the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders.
On the other hand, the other rights deriving from parenthood - inheritance, maintenance obligation, right of custody, etc.
- do not necessarily apply in all Member States.
Difficulties arise in particular in certain countries, when the parents are of the same sex.
At the end of the day,
“significant negative consequences for children…
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