While some countries will issue birth certificates that feature two mothers or fathers, they are not recognised by countries like Italy, where surrogacy is illegal.
The coalition agreement also pledges to increase direct support for families, help the elderly, reduce taxes, cut red tape, and reduce “socially unproductive political spending” such as funds for separatist or pro-Catalan organizations.
Hate speech legislation targeting social conservatives could be next after the Estonian Parliament rammed through gay marriage this week in a move that could alienate the country’s substantial Russian-speaking population.
Far-left organisers of a “radical pride” event in Strasbourg called on participants to chant slogans calling for the deaths of trans-exclusionary feminists (TERFs).
In spite of the video evidence available to them, mainstream Belgian media kept mum about the profile of the assailants and the revealing chant (“Allahu akbar”) they uttered.
