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It is incompatible with the subsidiarity principle and proximity principle that the 626 Members of the European Parliament should pronounce upon what vision of the family and what legislation affecting the family the 15 Member States and the twelve candidate states’ national parliaments should arrive at.
In solemn speeches and addresses, such as that given this week in the European Parliament by the Prime Minister of the country currently holding the presidency of the Union, Portugal, the wealth of Europe’s different cultures, traditions, languages and national identities has been emphasised time after time.
To then state that the family’s – and, therefore indirectly, children’s – legal position should be standardised throughout Europe, as proposed in paragraphs 53 and 54 of the present resolution, constitutes a basic offence against the national right to legislate and against the EU’s own subsidiarity principle, as formulated in the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam.
In our capacity as Swedish Christian Democrats, we shall, of course, be continuing our work in the Swedish Parliament aimed at establishing a basic legal position where the family and marriage between men and women are concerned. This is with a view to making our country’s legislation more friendly to families and children and out of an active desire to support stable and long-term parental relationships which can meet children’s needs for security, care and socialisation."@en1
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