Surrogate mothers or surrogacy continue to divide and create controversy in Europe. After the European Parliament voted in the spring on a directive condemning “the exploitation of surrogacy”. The far right launched a disinformation campaign, claiming that surrogacy was going to be banned.
In fact, in Europe, several countries allow it… Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Greece. But also Ireland! The country has long been conservative on this issue, but a new law adopted just before the summer by Parliament recognizes the rights of both intended parents…. This is the report of Clemence Penard.
In Belgium, GPA tolerated
In Europe, while countries like France, Spain, Italy and Germany prohibit surrogacy, a country like Belgium cultivates ambiguity. No law regulates the practice but none prohibits it either; surrogacy is tolerated. In concrete terms, how does it work? The explanations in Brussels of Jean-Jacques Hery.
What clean energy for tomorrow?
We know, of course, about the power of wind and sun; for water, investments have mainly focused on tidal energy, that generated by the movement of the tide.
But scientists, with the help of private and European funds, are trying to recover the energy generated by waves, wave energy. In the north of theScotlandwe test strange devices, generators of natural energy. Our correspondent Marie Billon went to observe them.
On July 15, 1974, the partition of the island of Cyprus
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the partition of the island of Cypruswhat has been called “the events”. An island now divided between the North, under Turkish jurisdiction, and the Greek South, the only State recognized by the international community and member of theEU. The fate of this strategic island in the Mediterranean has been turbulent, successively Mycenaean, Assyrian, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine. For a time, it was governed by a Frankish king, then by Venice. Leonard Vincentit was at the end of the 16th century, and this is important for the Turkish side which often emphasizes it, that three centuries of Ottoman domination began.