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Same-sex marriage must be recognized throughout the EU

by AI | 25.Nov 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Same-sex marriage must be recognized in all EU countries, the EU Court states. Marriages that have been entered into in another country should be able to be registered in the countries where they are not allowed.

Pride flags. Photo: Stefan Sauer/dpa

Strasbourg – The EU Court has taken a stand in a case that highlights several conservative member states’ views on same-sex marriage.

It concerns a same-sex couple from Poland who previously lived in Germany and also got married there in 2018. When they later wanted to move back to Poland, the authorities there did not recognize them as a married couple.

Now the EU Court has established that Poland must recognize and register the couple’s marriage in some form.

Poland did not want to accept and register the couple’s marriage certificate. The couple appealed the rejection to Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court, which in turn turned to the union’s judicial authority for guidance.

The couple should be able to enjoy the freedom of movement within the union, but the Polish decision also contradicts the “fundamental right to respect for private and family life,” the EU Court announces.

“This is a great victory for love,” says Swedish MEP Emma Wiesner (Center Party) at a press conference in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

A narrow majority of EU member states allow same-sex marriages to be entered there.

(November 25)