2023-12-15 19:02:37
A proposal providing for the recognition of parentage rights recognized by a Member State of the European Union in any other EU country was approved on Thursday by MEPs in the European Parliament. 366 of them voted for, 145 against and 23 abstained. The text proposed by the European Commission aims to create “a European certificate of parentage” which would protect in particular the rights of children of same-sex parent families.
Adoption of the text unlikely
Two million children in this situation could currently see their parents recognized as such in some countries and not in others. To enter into force, however, the text must still be subject to unanimous ratification by the 27 EU countries. However, at least one state, Hungary, should not give its agreement. MEPs of other nationalities also expressed their opposition to the measure.
Frenchman Gilles Lebreton (ID, nationalist right) denounced “interference”. In France, the Family Union said it feared “an unprecedented decline in the rights of women and children”. The Portuguese rapporteur of the text, Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques, estimated that “No child should be discriminated against because of the family to which they belong or the way in which they were born”.
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