Obstacles to the Free Movement of Rainbow Families in the EU
Study
08-03-2021
This study, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, examines: (i) the obstacles that rainbow families (same-sex couples, with or without children) face when they attempt to exercise their free movement rights within the EU, including examples in petitions presented to the PETI committee; (ii) how EU Member States treat same-sex married couples, registered partners, unregistered partners, and their children in cross-border situations; and (iii) action that EU institutions could take to remove these obstacles.
Study
Executive summary
External author
TRYFONIDOU Alina, WINTEMUTE Robert
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- civil union
- economic geography
- equal treatment
- Europe
- European citizenship
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- family
- family protection
- free movement of persons
- GEOGRAPHY
- infringement procedure (EU)
- internal border of the EU
- international law
- LAW
- mutual recognition principle
- political geography
- rights and freedoms
- Romania
- sexual minority
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS