are defined as all forms of civil unions between two people living together, bound by ties
emotional and economic, that do not access voluntarily legal institution of marriage, or who are unable to contract, which have given the legal significance or which have been granted legal status. The class of civil unions is varied and includes an extreme variety of rules and models of discipline, in particular, civil unions can apply to both pairs of opposite sex and same-sex couples. Unmarried couples (but not regularized in existing civil union) are heterosexual Italian today, according to ISTAT, about 555,000. Just ten years ago were practically half: 227,000. Other ISTAT (December 2000), reported that 893 000 marriages (4.6 per cent of the total) are preceded by cohabitation, This amount does not adequately suit the idea of \u200b\u200bchange has occurred: only 2.5 percent of people married before 1988 have had this experience, compared with 12.8 of those tie the knot in the last few years. countries that do not include specific legislation to regulate civil unions Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Macedonia, Moldova, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City
bills
On October 22, 2002 Franco Grillini (DS, honorary president of Arcigay) presented a bill entitled Rules of Civil Pact of Solidarity and of de facto unions, based on French law of PACS, a contract that provides extensive protection to living (right to acquire, journalism, controls the lease, provides for fiscal and other) and involves a series of obligations: commitment to a life in common, mutual aid material, responsibility for debts incurred after the signing of the contract. This proposal is supported by the campaign to mobilize a PACS Next, promoted dall'Arcigay. The program of the center-left coalition, won by the outgoing political consultations April 2006, the proposal provides for the "legal recognition of rights, prerogatives and powers to the people who are part of de facto unions. In order to define the nature and quality of marital partners, it is not nullifying the gender of the partners or their sexual orientation. Be considered rather as a qualifying criterion, the system of relationships (romantic, care and solidarity), their stability and voluntary. " An agreement of the government majority has ruled that, by January 31, 2007, the government will submit a draft law on the matter. This decision has aroused angry opposition from the Vatican and the opposition. It
Thanks for the article
Nicolò Cavalli Secretary FGS Rimini (here on the site the full text article is available in the Campaigns section)
