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Weekly legal news from the EU and RussiaBulgaria denies citizenship to Spanish-born child with two mothers
The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) has finally decided that Sara, born in Spain and raised by two mothers, does not have the right to receive a Bulgarian birth certificate and citizenship. The case involves three European countries – Bulgaria, Spain and the UK, and soon it may be brought before EU institutions. The child was born in 2019 in Spain to a family of two mothers – Kalina and Jane. Same-sex marriages are allowed in Spain but not in Bulgaria.
Source: Euractiv
Germany announces new “feminist foreign policy”
Germany's centre-left government on Wednesday announced new feminist guidelines to shape its diplomacy and development work including the creation of a new role for an "ambassador for feminist foreign policy". Germany will lobby to ensure women's concerns are more in focus worldwide, that women are better represented and that the country's generous development funds are allocated more to projects that tackle gender inequality, according to the guidelines.
Source: Reuters
Demo urges EU Commission to stop privatising transport
Rail workers, MEPs, and trade unions rallied on Tuesday (28 February) in Brussels to stop the EU Commission's attempt to further privatise public transport across the EU. "No to Privatisation" was the most-common shout during the afternoon under the banners of around 10 national trade unions gathered in front of the European Parliament to demand "respect for EU democracy" and "affordable public services" for all citizens.
Source: EU Observer
Belarusian court sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to ten years behind bars
A Belarusian court has sentenced human rights defender, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski to ten years of imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony, correspondent for Russia’s state news agency TASS reports. The prosecutor previously requested 12 years in a colony for Bialiatski. The Viasna Human Rights Centre states that the other defendants, human rights defenders Valentin Stefanovich and Vladimir Labkovich, have been sentenced to nine and seven years behind bars respectively.
Source: Novaya Gazeta EU
Russia bans Transparency International
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared Transparency International, a Berlin-based anti-corruption NGO, “undesirable” in the country, the agency reported. The undesirable status bans organisations from working in Russia and shuts down Russians branches of international NGOs and NPOs. The Prosecutor General’s Office stressed that Transparency International is run by “citizens of foreign countries”.
Source: Novaya Gazeta EU
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