The legislation on children’s adoption in the EU, at both national and cross-border level, is extremely complicated. On 2 February 2017 the European Parliament adopted the Committee on Legal Affairs’ resolution with recommendations to the Commission on cross-border aspects of adoptions (rapporteur Tadeusz Zwiefka (A8-0370/2016)).

With regard to the above resolution, to the fact that all decisions must be made in accordance with the principle of the best interests of the child and the parents’ wishes for the adoption and to the fact that the situation in the social institutions is precarious, what solutions can the Commission propose?