I dag bliver det afgjort, om EU centralistisk tiltager sig retten til at definere og regulere begrebet familie, eller om man i første omgang tager udgangspunkt i begrebet kernefamilie, som er fælles for alle medlemsstater, og overlader mere vidtgående ordninger til medlemsstaterne.
Today it will be decided whether the EU should reserve for itself, in a centralist way, the process of defining and regulating what constitutes a family, or whether in the first place the concept of a nuclear family, which is common to all Member States, should be taken as a basis, with regulations going any further than that being at Member States' discretion.