Legal and Cultural Surrender in the EU
I don’t know what else to call what is described here:
Opposition to EU divorce rules plan
19 April 2007Luxembourg (dpa) - A European Union proposal that would allow the laws of non-EU countries to be applicable in divorce cases ran into fierce opposition from Sweden on Thursday.
Liberal Sweden strongly resists the plan, which it says could force EU member states to dissolve marriages on the basis of foreign law, including traditional Islamic law, or Sharia.
“It is not acceptable that the planned rules would lead to Swedish courts having to apply foreign law,” a Swedish diplomat told reporters at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Germany is pushing for new rules under which international couples, prior to marriage, would be able to set out in a contract which country’s laws will reign in a divorce court.
I can’t grasp why Germany, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, is pushing the idea.
Have “enlightened” EU feminists and civil rights groups worthy of the name ever looked at what Sharia law does to women? Are they really just going to acquiesce?
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