Nearly ‘one child in every classroom’ is typically born using IVF in UK
Official data shows rise in single patients and female same-sex couples opting for assisted fertility treatments
same-sex couples
EU weighs sperm donor cap to curb risk of accidental incest
Donations are booming, increasing the health and psychological risks to donor children.
Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ rules breach EU law, top court adviser says
Legal opinion bolsters EU’s challenge against Viktor Orbán’s conservative culture war.
Italy’s high court rules both same-sex mothers can be named on birth certificates
Italy’s highest court ruled Thursday that women in same-sex couples who become mothers through IVF both have the right to be recognised on the birth certificate. Previously, some cities recognised only the biological parent, leaving non-biological mot…
Race for Poland’s presidency blows wide open
The June 1 second-round vote will have an impact well beyond Poland.
Will the first American pope stand up to Trump?
Support in this week’s papal conclave coalesced around a leader who may challenge the U.S. president’s agenda, particularly around migration.
Skirting the Fault Line? AG Richard de la Tour’s Opinion in the Wojewoda Mazowiecki case: EU law requires registration of same sex marriages only when no alternatives exist
Helga Luku, PhD
researcher, University of Antwerp
Photo credit: Jakub Halun,
via Wikimedia
commons
On the 3rd of April 2025,
Advocate General (AG) Richard de la Tour delivered his Opinion
in C-713/23, Wojewoda Mazowiecki, concerning the recogni…
Spain bans its embassies from registering babies born through surrogacy
From Madrid to Rome, ideologically opposed European politicians are united in their ban of the practice.
Why Gen Z cares about the next pope — and what it says about the Church
For the first time, Conclave is cool. But what does this surge in interest reveal about the relationship between the young and one of the world’s oldest institutions?
Pope Francis dead at 88
He was unafraid to wade into politics, publicly feuding with U.S. President Donald Trump over immigration and rebuking U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
Budapest Pride: banned? – Banning Pride as a violation of EU free movement
Attila Szabó, LLM in European law, Head of Legal Aid Service, Hungarian Civil
Liberties Union
The author would
like to thank Steve Peers and Máté Szabó, HCLU’s professional director, for
their ideas for the text!
Photo credit: Tételes…
Orbán tries to ban Pride in Hungary as polls show rival surging
Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.
Slovak Christian Democrats oppose Fico’s controversial constitutional reform
BRATISLAVA – The opposition Christian Democratic Party (KDH) has announced it will not support Prime Minister Robert Fico’s proposed amendments, which seek to define only two genders, ban adoption by same-sex couples, and establish the primacy of Slova…
Georgia’s EU accession halted as country ‘has gone backwards’
A critical progress report on EU accession delivers a blow to the Georgian government, already in crisis over election fraud allegations.
Georgia signs sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law
The legislation bans same-sex marriage and changing one’s gender.
Georgian president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ+ rights bill into law
Salome Zourabichvili opts not to advance bans on same-sex marriages and on adoptions by same-sex couplesGeorgia’s president has refused to sign into law a bill aimed at severely curtailing LGBTQ+ rights, weeks after the controversial legislation was pa…
Romanian PM rejects need to legally protect same-sex couples
Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has questioned the need to introduce civil partnerships, saying that LGBTI citizens already enjoy equal rights despite the Strasbourg-based human rights court condemning Romania for failing to protect same-sex cou…