Actuality | Science and Bioethics

Romania votes against gay unions (and the government left is in favor)
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“The Constitution makes it clear that marriage is between a man and a woman”
Of Manuela Gatti
Treccani makes it a linguistic question. Today and tomorrow, explains the Encyclopedia, Romania votes on the definition of "family" contained in the Constitution: must continue to mean "marriage between spouses" or must be transformed into a more clear-cut "marriage between man and woman"? The question that i 18 millions of voters will find themselves faced with is exactly this, but it is easy to understand that the consequences of the vote will not only be glottological.
The goal of the Coalition for the Family, the group of NGOs supported by the Orthodox Church that proposed the referendum, is to ban that, also in the future, same-sex unions can be legalised, which in any case are not already provided for by the Romanian legal system. If the "yes" votes won, one would be needed – long and laborious – constitutional amendment to allow rainbow marriages. Read More

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Actuality | events

Soros surrenders to Orbán The foundation and the NGO abandon Budapest
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The reason is an ad hoc law that wants to tax those who deal with migrants in the Hungarian country
Of Manuela Gatti
«You will understand that I don't start crying», ha commentato Viktor Orbán. As if there was any doubt about it.
Probably the Hungarian Prime Minister, re-elected last 8 April for the fourth term, will have celebrated at the news that the foundation of billionaire and philanthropist George Soros will close its offices in Budapest and move to Berlin over the summer. They don't confirm from the NGO, but they speak of the need to protect "the safety of the staff and the integrity of the work". President Patrick Gaspard, however, has already flown in person to the Hungarian capital to inform those around 100 dependent on the decision.
The remote battle between Orbán and Soros has been going on for some time. The casus belli that has now precipitated the situation has a rather explicit nickname: «Stop Row». This is the law that will be discussed by the Hungarian parliament next week and that the government has committed to passing which would impose a tax of 25% on all foreign donations to non-governmental organizations that support migrants in the country. Just like the «Open Society Foundations» of the American Jewish philanthropist of Hungarian origins, the third largest humanitarian organization in the world by assets (18 billions of dollars). A particularly convenient shortcut for the leader of Budapest's populist and conservative right, which in this way would be able to eliminate a good part of the enemy's activity within its national borders. Read More

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