"Let's divorce, Italian style, darling," headlines Mladá fronta DNES in the wake of a 24 March proposal by the European Commission to introduce new legislation to facilitate "international divorce." Under the terms of the new law, cross-border couples will soon be able to choose the jurisdiction in which to apply for a divorce, if one of the spouses has links with the country. "Every year, some 300,000 transnational couples dutifully say their 'I do's' and roughly half of these marriages culminate in divorce," notes the Czech daily. “The proposal has been prompted an acknowledgement of the need for "enhanced cooperation" in divorce procedures requested by ten states (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Romania, and Slovenia) where cross-border divorces are a growing phenomenon.
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