Italy’s Senate on Tuesday rejected the European Commission’s proposed “European Paternity Certificate” that would automatically recognize established and legal paternity in another member state, including LGBTQ families, by all European Union countries.
With 11 votes against and seven in favour, the Brussels proposal was rejected by the Italian Senate’s European Policy Committee, whose position will now be transferred to the European Council, together with the resolutions of the other parliaments of the states.
The rejection was supported by the government’s right-wing coalition, led by far-right Giorgia Meloni, while all opposition parties voted in favor of the EU proposal.
According to the resolution, “certain provisions”, such as the obligation to recognize the European certificate, are “not in line with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality” so that if adopted “would constitute an infringement of European legislation on national law” .
In addition, senators argued against the certificate that it could be a problematic issue in the case of surrogacy, legal in some EU countries but banned in Italy.
However, for the Italian opposition, led by the social democrats of the Democratic Party (PD), this rejection represents an obstacle to the rights of minors, especially same-sex couples.
“The majority opinion puts Italy on the side of Poland and Hungary in limiting the rights. This regulation proposed by the EU has not affected Italian laws and regulations in any way,” said Simona Malpezzi, spokeswoman for the Senate PD.
The proposal, Malpezzi added, only guarantees that “children with the status of minors in a given EU country can have the same status as children in the European country they move to with their parents, always giving priority to priority rights.” of minors”.
Also this Tuesday, the government delegation in Milan, in northern Italy, advised the city’s mayor, Giuseppe Sala, to stop registering foreign-born children as children of same-sex couples. In July 2022, the mayor began authorizing the registration of children of same-sex couples, based on a legal loophole, allowing about 300 families to register their children in the Civil Registry as their own and not as adopted.
Source: DN
