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Family law and the EU - at the crossroads?

Family law is a particular branch of law, under considerable influence of tradition, culture, customs and religion. As a consequence, it has long been excluded from the processes of European integration. However, during the last decades the shift in legal paradigm occurred - from complete neglect to the mainstreaming the issues of family law and human rights into the European Union policies. The Union clearly shows great interest in the family law and the expectation that it shall continue to do so even more vigorously leads us to the doubts, as considered in this paper. The three main issues include: the significance and the value of the Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union from the family law aspect ; the relationship between multilevel protection systems and finally, the direction and scope of future development. Namely, it seems at this point that the development of EU interest in the issues of family law has reached a turning point. The most realistic scenarios for the future in the view of the author are refocusing on economic issues ; further and concrete committing to human rights issues and finally, maintaining the status quo, which is found to be the most likely scenario.

family law, European Union

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