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The Supreme Court of Cassation ruled trans people can change their name and gender marker on official documents, closing a nearly ten-year legal battle and putting Bulgaria in line with an EU court ruling from March.
A Slovak couple married in Austria in 2020 just got a rejection letter for their marriage registration — despite a CJEU ruling ordering every EU country to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the bloc.
The Supreme Court of Cassation approved gender marker changes for four transgender Bulgarians last month, ending a six-year freeze forced open by an EU court ruling in March.
Brussels has a five-year plan to protect and empower LGBTIQ+ people across the bloc. The ambition is genuine — but for the Balkans and the countries queuing to join, what happens next depends on whether anyone makes it bite.
EU institutions launched a synchronized pro-LGBTQ+ campaign ahead of Pride Month, promoting the new 2026-2030 Equality Strategy. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: it is unusually coordinated.
Brussels' long-awaited response to 1.2 million petition signatures landed on May 13. Ursula von der Leyen called the practice 'barbaric' and asked every member state to outlaw it. What she didn't do is propose a binding EU-wide ban.
The CJEU's March 11 ruling told three EU member states they must offer legal gender recognition to nationals who have exercised free movement. Sixty days on, Sofia has reopened cases but passed no law. Budapest and Bratislava are openly defying the judgment.
MEPs voted on April 29 to endorse a citizen-led initiative calling for an EU-wide ban on conversion practices. The resolution is non-binding, but it puts the Commission on the clock — a formal response is expected May 18.
Over 100 rights groups, including Amnesty International and Poland's Supreme Bar Council, signed an open letter demanding the government implement court orders to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad — after the Interior Minister suggested it wouldn't.
On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice delivers its judgment in Commission v. Hungary, the first infringement case to rely on Article 2 TEU as a standalone basis. Here's what's at stake.
A series of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court rulings have steadily widened legal protections for LGBTQ+ families in Italy, putting the judiciary on a collision course with the Meloni government's anti-surrogacy and 'traditional family' agenda.
In a landmark 340-141 vote, the European Parliament passed a resolution affirming the full recognition of trans women as women — a symbolic but significant rebuke to the global anti-trans backlash.
Albania and Serbia are racing toward EU membership. The price of admission includes reforms on anti-discrimination, hate crimes, and LGBTQ+ protections — and the effects are already visible.
From forcing Poland to recognize same-sex marriages to challenging Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law, the European Court of Justice is stepping in where elected officials won't.
Poland's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that civil registries must record same-sex marriages from other EU states — a landmark shift for a country where marriage equality remains constitutionally banned.
A Romanian court ruled that the state must issue a new birth certificate to Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a trans man who transitioned in the UK — setting a binding precedent for all 27 EU member states.
