One Million Signatures endorsed the request of an equal marriage across the European Union. To this end ExpoGays presented yesterday to mark the World Day Against Homophobia, a campaign that will launch a citizens' initiative in favor of gay marriage in Europe.
This mechanism was adopted by the European Commission last February 16, 2011 and allows presenting a million signatures of citizens of the EU in the European Parliament a group of EU nationals can apply directly to the European Commission to amend the legislation.
The signature collection campaign was carried out through the web www.peticiongay.com
Gay marriage is only legal in Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands, that is, five of twenty EU member countries, and civil unions, in the above, plus Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Luxembourg and Austria and Hungary in unregistered cohabitation arrangements, ie fourteen (plus two) of twenty.
However, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union sets out the equality of all European citizens before the law (Article 20) and explicitly prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation (Article 21):
"Any discrimination, and in particular on grounds of sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, membership a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation. " The difference in treatment in different countries based on Article 9 of this same treaty, which states that the right to marry is subject to "national laws governing the exercise" even though it guarantees "the right to marry and the right to found a family. "
The initiative will be presented in accordance with European Regulation, a Committee of Citizens of the Union, created for this purpose. The committee, once signed and accepted the citizens' initiative, will confirm the signatures received and submit competent bodies.
The site lets you choose the 27 nations that are part of the Union and will be progressively translated into all official languages. Currently appears in eight languages.
The text of the petition, which is addressed to European Commission president, is as follows: "We request a proposal for a European directive governing marriage in the context of the EU without discrimination based on sexual orientation, enabling marriages and marriages of same-sex couples the same effects as those of the opposite sex. " Taken
http://www.estanochegay.com/
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