OK to civil unions by year's end - Renzi

(ANSA) - Rome, September 2 - Parliament will approve a government bill on civil unions by the end of the year, Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday. "But a lot will depend on how the debate in the Senate goes," he said. "We must speed constitutional reforms by the end of September and then wrap up civil unions within the first weeks of October," before the budget, so they can go to the House, he said.