Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.69.2.01
EU Enhanced Cooperation Mechanism and Croatian Family Law
Irena Majstorović
orcid.org/0000-0002-4937-5968
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to shed more light on the European Union’s enhanced cooperation mechanism from the standpoint of substantive family law, as well as to present its advantages and shortcomings with regard to national family law systems. To be more precise, although family law remains within the competence of national legislatures of the member states of the Union, the developments which have occurred during the last decade raise numerous questions. The enhanced cooperation mechanism was indeed first activated in the family law area, and the two instruments of enhanced cooperation linked to the property regimes of spouses and registered partners are implemented in the Republic of Croatia, as well. Therefore, we believe it is important to address the dilemmas that stem from the process itself, especially in the light of strengthening the so-called multi-speed Europe, and of the open issues of the influence of the enhanced cooperation mechanism on the Croatian family law.
Keywords
enhanced cooperation; family law; European Union; divorce and separation; property regimes
Hrčak ID:
220235
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Publication date:
13.5.2019.
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