Ten states members of the European Union are willing to open the procedure of "consolidated cooperation" in order to simplify the situation of the bi-national couples who want to get divorced.
However, some of the members of the European Committee are against this, since they are afraid that this will lead to two different camps and two different European organs.
France officially joined such an initiative, which was launched by nine states during the summer.
The head of the French diplomatic corpus excused herself for not taking part into to a reunion of the Ministers of Justice of the European Union, explaining that she had just given birth and therefore, she sent one of her representatives.
The reunion brought up this topic, but Jacques Barrot announced that it wasn't enough to have ten requests and invoked the risk of the family law becoming too shattered.
  However, the European Parliament also adopted a report last October, a report in which it supports the idea of the rules being simplified when it comes to the European divorces.
The officials were referring to the choice of the state where the divorce should be completed as well as to the law which should be adopted.
  All the officials admitted that the purpose was that of determining the law of which state to be applied or that of determining the competent jurisdiction when it comes to the divorce of two people coming from two state members of the European Union or of two persons who live on the territory of a third state member of the European Union.