Family law: a challenge for Europe?

Abstract

Family law will in the long run - and this run could be shorter as we expect now- be part of the activities of the European legislator. This legislator will not be the Council of Europe but the European Union. The cited cases prove that the time is not ripe for an institutional unification of substantive family law. At first a phase of spontaneous approximation of law is necessary. This approximation will be a task for research and education