On Wednesday 6 October the Court of Justice of the European Union responded to the request for an Opinion (Opinion 1/19) submitted to it by the European Parliament in July 2019 on the EU’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention (see EUROPE B12692A21).
The EU signed this Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, and thus signalled its intention to become a party to the text, in June 2017.
However, it has still not ratified it...