• The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued an opinion in a case involving a same-sex couple’s demand for their German marriage to be recognized as a marriage in Poland.

• An Iranian national granted asylum in Hungary requested that her registered female gender be changed to male, indicating that she is transgender. Her request was denied due to the lack of surgical gender reassignment.​

Destroying human embryos, as well as studying and experimenting on embryonic stem cells, will be legal in the European Union. The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected the appeal of the creators of the "One of Us" European Citizens' Initiative. This means that it will cease to be worked on any further by the EU. The purpose of the initiative was to make EU regulations more uniform by prohibiting and defunding actions which violate fundamental human rights.