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"Mr President, Community legislation governing relations under family law comprehensively addresses matters such as the territorial jurisdiction of the competent courts and the law applicable to international marriages and child contact and care. It fails to provide sufficient protection, however, to the parties concerned, in other words, the children, resulting in cases where children are often used as pawns in the settling of scores between former spouses or partners.
Strict adherence to the letter of the law leads to situations where Member State courts allow the natural bond between mother and child to be broken. For this reason, I would like to call on the European Union’s competent institutions to harmonise current legislation with the utmost possible respect for the protection of the positive interests of the child, and not only by means of vague escape-route provisions that are difficult to apply in practice, such as Article 12 of the Brussels II Regulation.
It is also important for courts to adopt a sympathetic, natural and ethical approach to the settlement of such disputes, particularly with regard to protecting the rights and legitimate interests of the child."@en1
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