"Political initiatives" to prevent divorce, find a good work-family balance, fight domestic abuse, protect the choice to take care full time of one’s children until they are three years old, reduce the VAT on child care products. These are some of the recommendations contained in the "Proposal for e European Union’s strategy for support to couples and marriage", drawn up by the secretariat of Comece (Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences), which has been announced in Brussels this morning. Developed as a result of the ever-increasing attention that the EU is paying to the family and which last May led to the launch of the "European Alliance for the families", the document, states the introduction, "does not aim at questioning the current EU-wide agreement on the member states’ jurisdiction on family and family policies. On the contrary, it means to promote a discussion on what" the EU institutions "can do within their jurisdictions". "The EU’s measures for family law specifies the document mainly consist in exchanging good practices and promoting new approaches. It can shape the member states’ measures and establish minimum welfare thresholds". (continued)
