The European Parliament deplores the delay in the EU's ratification process of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. It intends to ask the EU Court of Justice on Thursday, 4 April to overturn the arguments put forward by the Member States behind the blockage.
The Istanbul Convention entered into force in August 2014 to end violence against women. It has since been signed by all Member States, but seven of them (Bulgaria, Hungary,...