{"id":1773,"date":"2013-03-07T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/news\/progress-towards-harmonising-lgbt-rights-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T11:41:00","slug":"progress-towards-harmonising-lgbt-rights-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/progress-towards-harmonising-lgbt-rights-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress towards harmonising LGBT Rights in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week has witnessed two important steps towards equality for LGBT people in Europe. On March 13, the European Parliament has adopted its\u00a0annual report on equality between women and men in the European Union. The text looks at recent advances in gender equality, and includes several recommendations for LGBT rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The report, drafted by\u00a0Sophie in \u2018t Veld MEP,acknowledges that \u201cfamilies in the European Union are diverse\u201d and include \u201cdifferent-sex and same-sex parents […] who deserve equal protection under national and European Union law\u201d.The Parliament also \u201cregrets the implementation by some Member States of\u00a0restrictive definitions of \u2018family\u2019 in order to deny legal protection to same-sex couples and their children\u201d. Among other countries, Lithuania, Romania and Hungary<\/strong> recently adopted laws that seek to define \u2018family\u2019 in a discriminatory way.<\/p>\n

Sophie in \u2018t Veld, author of the report and Vice-president of the LGBT Intergroup, explained: \u201cI don\u2019t know what it is about Europe that allows us to recognise bread as bread and cheese as cheese when they go from the Netherlands to Germany, but not love as love. Conservative colleagues keep trying to cage same-sex families in their own country. But freedom of movement is for everyone in the EU, and equality will prevail.\u201d
\nIn the field of hate crime, the Parliament has also urged the Commission \u201cto include homophobic and transphobic violence and harassment in its action programmes against gender-based violence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Parliament has called on the\u00a0Danish Presidency of the EU\u00a0to unblock the proposed horizontal anti-discrimination Directive; suggested enforced cooperation between countries who have same-sex unions to facilitate the free movement of couples within their territory, as European Alternatives has advocated for years (see our video on this topic here<\/a>); and repeated its call for an EU Roadmap for Equality on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the European Parliament adopted a resolution to ensure national laws on successions are respected throughout the European Union. The Parliament said this new European law must respect the existing rights of same-sex spouses and partners.Drafted by\u00a0Kurt Lechner MEP, the report\u00a0on jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and authentic instruments in matters of succession and the creation of a European Certificate of Succession\u00a0was adopted with a wide majority in the European Parliament today.<\/p>\n

According to recital (24), Member States who do not recognise same-sex unions will not be allowed to reject succession decisions that are legal under Member States that do. The text explains that the courts or other competent authorities should not be able to apply the public-policy exception in order to set aside the law of another State or to refuse to recognise , or, as the case may be, accept, or enforce a decision, an authentic instrument, or a court settlementfrom another Member State when doing so would be contrary to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and in particular Article 21, which prohibits all forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n

Under this regulation, a Spanish citizen married to an Italian of the same-sex under Spanish law could inherit his or her possessions in Italy, even though Italy does not recognise same-sex marriage. The text is proposed according to\u00a0the ordinary legislative procedure, in which the European Parliament has an equal say to European governments. This text was the European Parliament\u2019s first reading out of potentially three readings. However, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark have opted out of this type of legislation.<\/p>\n

(Source: Press release from European Parliament\u2019s Intergroup on LGBT rights)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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