Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 14 December 2023 - Strasbourg

11.1. Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition of decisions and acceptance of authentic instruments in matters of parenthood and creation of a European Certificate of Parenthood (A9-0368/2023 - Maria-Manuel Leitão-Marques)

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  Ангел Джамбазки (ECR). – Г-н Председател, убедено гласувах против този доклад. Това е един от най-важните документи, които приема този Европейски съюз. В него, в този доклад, който абсолютно подменя своето значение – нарича се едва ли не за защита на правата на лицата, които са осиновяващи и осиновявани, всъщност е неприкрита пропаганда на т. нар. семейства на дъгата, еднополови и други подобни. Няма по-яко, по-ярко, по-видимо, по-флагрантно подменяне на наименования и прокарване на пропаганда.

В този доклад, в този документ се споменава думата „майка“ три пъти, три пъти, докато думата или определението „лицето, родило детето“ се споменава повече от 16 пъти. Това говори само за себе си и много ясно показва пропагандния характер на документа. За пореден път показва, че Парламентът е използван за трибуна за пропаганда. Дъга, не знам какво, всякакви други такива неща, които нямат нищо общо със заглавието, което е написано горе.

По този начин се провежда антисемейна пропаганда, която не може да бъде търпяна.

  Clare Daly (The Left). – Mr President, I voted in favour of this report because I think it’s a really important text that allows for the mutual recognition of judgements relating to parenthood. It simply states that if you are the parent in one Member State, then you’re a parent in all Member States. It puts the rights of the child first, which is as it should be, and it doesn’t change the substantive family law of Member States. This is absolutely critical. It’s not acceptable that children could lose their parents, legally speaking, when they enter another Member State in the European Union.

I’m reminded today of Mandy Kelly, an Irish mother who today is before the Petitions Committee in the Irish Parliament because her Egyptian husband abducted her two children in April 2022. She is seeking all during that time to have her parental rights vindicated, to have the rights of those children upheld and the court rulings in Ireland upheld. We need a bilateral arrangement also with countries like Egypt outside of the European Union, but for now, parental rights within the EU must be protected.

  Tatjana Ždanoka (NI). – Mr President, I didn’t vote on the draft legislative resolution, although I was present in the vote. Why? I am convinced that the legislation concerning cross-border situations deemed to fill legal gaps and create legal certainty for EU residents must resolve, first of all, the notion of EU citizenship. How can we speak about a European certificate of parenthood if we are not able to issue the European Union passport to EU natives being not the citizens of any state? These people are about 250 000 in Latvia and Estonia.

One recent case I dealt with, one Latvian family – two parents and child – had to move urgently to Spain due to sickness of the child, the child being a citizen when there is non-citizen parents, and they are deprived of the right to work, to provide situation to live in Spain, since they don’t have EU-level passports and are not eligible to work. It’s a shame.