• The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a complaint by a same-sex couple whose Polish registry office refused to register a marriage contracted in the United Kingdom. This is the fourth judgment in which the ECHR indicates that Poland has an obligation to ensure that same-sex couples can formalize their cohabitation.

• 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.

• The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has upheld the latest complaints by same-sex couples against Poland.

- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Bulgaria's failure to institutionalize same-sex unions violates the right to respect for family and private life.

- Bulgaria is the next country after Italy, Ukraine, Romania and Russia to be forced by the ECHR to institutionalize same-sex unions. 

- The Court leaves states free only to choose the form of institutionalization - same-sex unions do not have to be called "marriages."

The SSM discourse is working hard to establish the idea that EU Member States that do not legally recognize the same-sex marriages being contracted in another EU Member State, commit “serious violations of one of the fundamental EU principles – freedom of movement of citizens”. Clearly the intention of this argument is to convince the politicians and the general public that the free movement of persons requires the possibility that “every” family (defined as every kind of partnership), shall be able to move together in the EU.