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Slovakia’s government signed the 81-article document in 2011 and parliamentary ratification would have been the next step.
BRATISLAVA - Slovakia will not ratify a European treaty designed to combat violence against women, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday bowing to opposition from junior coalition partner and religious groups.
Two weeks ago, Bulgaria, which now holds the EU’s rotating presidency, has also rejected the treaty, highlighting resistance in the more socially conservative countries of the former eastern bloc to the liberal values of wealthier western Europe.
Slovakia’s government signed the 81-article document in 2011 and parliamentary ratification would have been the next step. In all, more than 40 countries have signed.
But Fico said that though Slovakia would adopt into law all measures aimed at combating violence against women, it would not ratify the treaty, which he said was a controversial document that could violate the constitution and lead to the introduction of same-sex marriage.
Slovakia effectively banned gay marriage when it passed a constitutional amendment in 2014 that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. It does not recognise any form of same-sex civil partnership either.
“We cannot pass measures that would clash with beliefs and feelings of people in some states,” Fico, a Social Democrat, said.
The European convention “needlessly questions natural differences between men and women and calls them stereotypes” while pursuing the fine goal of eliminating violence against women, he said.
A junior coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) said on Thursday it would go as far as demand that Slovakia withdraws its signature from the document.
The critics dispute the treaty’s definition of ‘gender’ as “social roles, behaviours, activities and characteristics that a particular society considers appropriate for women and men”.
The Roman Catholic Church said the document may lead to discrimination of religious freedom in the country of 5.4 million people, where 62 percent identify as Roman Catholics and 6 percent as Protestants, according to a 2011 census, the latest available.
EU members Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Britain, Croatia, Greece and Ireland have not signed treaty yet and neither have Council of Europe members Azerbaijan and Russia.
http://ewn.co.za/2018/02/22/slovakia...-against-women
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we do not want western decadence, simple as this..
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they try to push feminism and lgbt into eastern europe which is impossible!!! what is presented as "combating violence against women" is just a trojan horse by EU-babylon to implement feminism and lgbt into eastern european countries
eu is the new america, decadent babylon. we do not want this shit in eastern europe!!!
Last edited by revealman; 02-27-2018 at 01:35 PM.
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we also had a big march for traditional family values against western moral dacay. thousands of families marched through bratislava
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