Same-sex marriage must be recognised across EU, court rules

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Poland's prime minister, Mr Tusk, took office in December 2023 promising to legislate for same-sex marriage.
50% : Polish courts referred the case to the ECJ in Luxembourg, asking whether this stance respects or undermines EU rights of freedom of movement and respect for private and family life.
50% : It ruled that procedures relating to marriage, in particular transcription in a country's civil register, must be equal for all, including same-sex couples.
50% : Member states are not obliged to introduce marriage equality - a matter of domestic and not European law - but must recognise and apply rights conferred on its citizens by other EU member states.
50% : " In his speech on the future of the European Union in Prague, Mr Nawrocki proposed abolishing the head of the European Council, a role previously occupied by Mr Tusk.
49% : More than half of the 27 member states in the EU recognise same-sex marriage.
47% : Under EU law, however, a ECJ ruling cannot be vetoed by a head of an EU member state.
45% : Most other member states, including Italy, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, recognise same-sex civil unions.
43% : The ruling has its origins in 2018, when two Polish men, married in Germany, were refused permission for their marriage certificate to be entered in the civil register in their native Poland, which does not recognise same-sex unions.
34% : Tuesday's far-reaching ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) extends indirectly marriage equality across the bloc and creates a grave political dilemma for the divided coalition of Donald Tusk in Poland, where the case originated.
31% : In a speech in Prague on Monday, president Nawrocki said that "contrary to popular belief, Poland - including the conservative camp to which it proudly belongs - is not an enemy of the European Union".
19% : Europe's highest court indirectly extends marriage equality across the bloc and creates a political dilemma for Poland's divided coalition All EU member states are obliged to respect the marriage rights of same-sex couples, Europe's highest court has ruled, including countries without marriage equality legislation.

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