Children gay couples, the Senate rejects the EU regulation. Opposition: "Italy like Poland and Hungary"

Open clash on civil rights: at the center of a heated political debate ends the equal rights of children of same-sex parents - and not only.

After the government imposed on the Municipality of Milan to interrupt the registration of children born to same-sex couples in Italy, to ignite the controversy came the no of the center-right to the EU regulation on the European filiation certificate: the one according to which parenthood established in one Member State must be recognized in every other Member State, without special procedures, whether they are children of heterosexual or same-sex couples, adopted children or children with surrogacy where it is allowed.

The Senate's European Policies Committee has in fact approved with 11 votes in favor out of 18 a majority resolution presented by the rapporteur, former Foreign Minister Giulio Santagata, which in fact undermines the European regulation.

All the oppositions were united on the no, but it was not enough to stop the blitz of the majority. The text of the resolution presented by Terzi argues that "the obligation to recognize the EU certificate of filiation does not respect the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, so if it were adopted it would be an invasion of European law on national law".

"Italy - explains Terzi - guarantees the rights of all and takes a step forward in the construction of a European area of rights". It avoids circumventing the ban in force in our country on the use of surrogate motherhood (a form of assisted procreation used by gay and heterosexual couples): defined by the senators of Forza Italia, Maurizio Gasparri and Pierantonio Zanettin "an unacceptable practice like that of the uterus for rent".

"It was about recognizing equality and civilization. We are now on the Hungarian right," said PD deputy Alessandro Zan. Concept reiterated by the MEP of the Democratic Party, Irene Tinagli: "On the rights front, this government is dangerously close to the Hungarian border: a discriminatory behavior towards children that frankly I would not have expected from a female and mother prime minister".

With this decision "Giorgia Meloni and her followers assume a resounding responsibility - also comment the senators of the 5 Star Movement Dolores Bevilacqua and Pietro Lorefice: "bring Italy on the axis of Orban and Poland in terms of rights".

"I am against the decriminalization of GPA (Gestation for others) but it is absurd and unfair that children suffer the negative consequences. The position of the majority is unfair and wrong", comments in turn the leader of Azione Carlo Calenda.

Speaking of the stop to the registration of the children of same-sex couples to which the government has forced the Municipality of Milan, the mayor Beppe Sala defines it as "a political and social step backwards", recalling the legislative vacuum that the mayors have had to compensate: a national law is needed, he says, to allow as in other European countries the registration of the child of a same-sex couple.

"A clear national law is urgent and necessary - says in turn the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri: "I join the mayors Sala, Lepore, Lorusso and others in asking Parliament to take responsibility as soon as possible to guarantee the recognition of full rights for all minors living in our country, including those of the Rainbow Families".

If in Milan the Municipality had to block the transcriptions, in two different cases in Puglia two judges instead recognized, after the refusal of the Municipalities, the right to the full transcription of birth certificates for children born to heterosexual couples with surrogacy abroad. The two measures concern the transcription of birth certificates of children born in Ukraine.

Other controversies in Viareggio for the decision of a school director to suspend the workshop for Father's Day. A choice, according to Fratelli d'Italia, "dictated by the desire not to discriminate against children who do not have a father but also by the fact that today there is no longer a model family". "Creating such a precedent - observed Vittorio Fantozzi, regional councilor and Marco Dondolini, city councilor in Viareggio - could be the pretext for the future cancellation of other anniversaries, such as Mother's Day".