Parents and children according to one Member State, unknown according to another – The New Federal Republic of Germany

On 12 March 2025, at the plenary session of the European Parliament, the proposal for a regulation of 7 December 2022 on, inter alia, the mutual recognition of filiation within the Member States was again discussed in the Chamber. Being a parent in one Member State does not make you a parent throughout the Union... Each State qualifies according to its domestic legislation, what is a filiation relationship. However, some laws are more liberal th…