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Advocate General Laila Medina's opinion in Case C-449/25 would leave a British woman without residence rights in Romania. It is advisory, not a ruling — and the distinction matters enormously.
A new anti-corruption law requires politicians' 'civil partners' to disclose their assets — despite Romania having no legal definition of a civil partnership. LGBTQ+ groups are using the irony to push Parliament toward a real law this September.
Montenegro has closed nearly half its EU accession chapters and is on track to be Europe's newest member by 2028 — but a Rainbow Map score of 53% and a January stoning attack in Podgorica show how far implementation lags behind the paperwork.
Montenegro was the first EU-accession country in the Balkans to recognize same-sex partnerships. Six years on, the law is on the books but unevenly enforced, gender recognition is still missing, and the gap between paper rights and daily life remains wide.
Same-sex activity has been legal since 1996, but North Macedonia still recognises no partnerships, has no working gender-recognition procedure, and is ignoring a binding European court ruling. With Skopje Pride set for June 20 and EU accession in play, here is where things actually stand.
