Now EU justice hopeful slams single parents
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Italy&#39;s would-be European Commissioner, Rocco Buttiglione - already notorious for his view that homosexuality is a sin - has caused fresh outrage this weekend by telling a conference in northern Italy that single mothers are &#39;not very good&#39;.
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Portuguese MEP accuses prime minister of 'double standards' over threat to boycott EU-Africa summit.
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LONDON: A new row erupted around a British cabinet minister at the weekend amid questions whether he had received preferential treatment to speed up the adoption of a baby boy from the United States.
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Married couples are not necessarily the best parents, Education Secretary Alan Johnson is to say in a speech.
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Italyâs anti-gay nominee to be the EUâs justice and home affairs commissioner said that he was discriminated against as a Catholic and as a member of Premier Berlusconiâ centre-right government when a European Parliament committee voted against his
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The Italian minister nominated as EU justice and home affairs commissioner has denied criticising single mothers. Rocco Buttiglione is already at the centre of a row after being rejected by the European Parliament
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Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.
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Newer EU members are struggling to promote a more traditional morality.
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Absent parents refusing to support their children could be 'named and shamed' on a UK government website.
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Parliament challenges conservative appointee Wednesday. PARIS For a man belittled months ago as an obscure weakling, Jose Manuel Barroso is stirring up a lot of trouble.
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THE incoming president of the European commission is facing the wrath of the European parliament for the second time in a row over a criminal conviction of Jacques Barrot, his French commissioner.
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Couples with young children are five times more likely to split up if they are unmarried, the Conservatives claim.
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Proposed social reforms in Spain spark Catholic anger about a perceived erosion of family values.
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A minister who warned about birth defects among children of first cousin Asian marriages sparks anger among critics.
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Hungarian women's groups have lashed out at Prime Minister-in-waiting Ferenc Gyurcsany for comparing the way the Socialist Party dumped his predecessor to a married man who abandons his ageing wife for a ...
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British Eurosceptic Robert Kilroy-Silk lashed out at the EU's new Commission as a &quot;gaggle of has-beens,&quot; taking aim in particular at London's nominee Peter Mandelson.
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An EU election observer says she is "appalled" at the life sentences given to 30 Ethiopian opposition leaders.