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Last Updated: Thursday, 22 September 2005, 03:35 GMT 04:35 UK
European press review - BBC

The future of EU following comments by Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on the constitution attracts attention in Thursday's papers; speculation continues over Germany's electoral stalemate and Spanish papers question opposition to the country's new gay marriage law.

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Spain's gay marriages

Spanish papers examine the decision by Spain's opposition right-wing Popular Party (PP) to file a constitutional challenge against the recently passed gay marriage law.

Barcelona's El Periodico highlights the disagreements within the party over the decision, noting that a number of prominent party members oppose the move.

"The PP cannot disguise that this has created a split", the paper says.

Madrid's El Pais says the leadership of the Popular Party "insists that it is not questioning the rights of homosexuals but rather a law that is contrary to the constitution".

But the paper thinks it is "curious, as well as contradictory" for the party to say it is defending their rights by appealing against the law.

The party "will have to clarify whether it is just against the name - that gay weddings be called marriages - or whether it in fact opposes the full legal comparison of same sex couples with heterosexual ones".



The European press review is compiled by BBC Monitoring from internet editions of the main European newspapers and some early printed editions.