- The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) has adopted an opinion on draft legislation to facilitate the recognition of parenthood in the European Union.

- The draft introduces an obligation for EU countries to mutually recognise judgments establishing parenthood.

- Adoption of the regulation would mean that Poland could be required to accept adoptions made in other countries by same-sex couples.

· German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced a 'historic moment' in Germany's migration policy.

· The compromise worked out at federal and federal state level relates to the asylum application procedure and the way it is funded.

· After the changes, migrants would receive social assistance after three years of residence in Germany and not, as now, after one and a half years.

- This Tuesday, the people of US Ohio will decide in a referendum whether so-called reproductive rights and the right to abortion will be written into the state constitution.

- The referendum is linked to the US Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organisation, which confirmed that the US Constitution does not guarantee the so-called right to abortion.

· The World Health Organisation has published another draft of the so-called 'Anti-Pandemic Treaty', which is intended to be the organisation's primary tool for countering the international spread of infectious diseases.

· The treaty has been widely commented on because of its proposed wording, including the transfer of powers to the WHO to centrally manage health policy. 

Everyone is probably familiar with the Latin paremia from Roman law, "Ignorantia iuris nocet". The essence of this principle is that an individual, referred to in the literature as a subject of the law, cannot justify his or her actions or omissions by invoking ignorance of legal norms.

- The Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament have, by an overwhelming majority, adopted a Report on the primacy of Community law over the national laws of the Member States.

- The report contains recommendations recommending, inter alia, that the principle should be enshrined in the EU treaties in order to give it greater legal force.