Define rape based on consent across Europe

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2026-02-26 23:30

Article here. Excerpt:

'The EPP Group calls for a legally robust, EU-wide definition of rape, based on freely given and revocable consent, following today’s vote in Parliament’s joint committees on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and on Women’s Rights.

The report voted on today urges the European Commission to propose legislation that ensures an EU-wide definition guaranteeing equal protection for women in all Member States.

“As the EPP, we stand firmly on the side of women and their right to sexual self-determination. The absence of resistance can never be interpreted as consent,” said Verena Mertens MEP, the EPP negotiator in the Civil Liberties Committee.

She stressed that “from a law enforcement and rule-of-law perspective, we need a legally sound, practical and EU-wide, comparable definition of rape based on freely given and revocable consent, so that crimes are effectively prosecuted, and perpetrators are held accountable.”'

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This is less about actual rape and more about giving random women the power to place a given man in legal jeopardy just by saying he fucked her w/out her explicit consent.

This makes just about any man a target for a rape accusation.

A couple gently and quietly segueing from making out to fucking which is how it's been done for 100s of 1000s of years, is something feminists want to outlaw.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2026-02-26 23:33