Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe

Debate has occurred throughout Europe over proposals to legalise same-sex marriage as well as same-sex civil unions. Currently 29 of the 50 countries and 8 of the 9 dependent territories in Europe[nb 1] recognise some type of same-sex unions, among them most members of the European Union (23/27).

Laws regarding same-sex partnerships in Europe¹
  Marriage
  Civil union
  Limited domestic recognition (cohabitation)
  Limited foreign recognition (residency rights)
  Unrecognized
  Constitution limits marriage to opposite-sex couples
¹ May include recent laws or court decisions that have not yet entered into effect.
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As of January 2019, sixteen European countries legally recognise and perform same-sex marriages: Austria, Belgium, Denmark and the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.[nb 2] An additional thirteen European countries legally recognise some form of civil union, namely Andorra, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Poland and Slovakia recognise cohabitation for very limited purposes. Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia recognise same-sex marriages performed within the EU and including an EU citizen.

Of the countries that recognise and perform same-sex marriages some still allow couples to enter civil unions, e.g. Benelux countries, France and the United Kingdom,[nb 3] whereas Germany, Ireland and the Nordic countries have terminated their pre-marriage civil union legislation so that existing unions remain but new ones are not possible.

Several European countries do not recognise any form of same-sex unions. Marriage is defined as a union solely between a man and a woman in the constitutions of Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Of these, however, Croatia and Hungary recognise same-sex partnerships.

Current situation

International level

European Court of Human Rights

Over the years, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has handled cases that challenged the lack of legal recognition of same-sex couples in certain member states. The Court has held that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) requires member states to provide legal recognition, but does not require marriage to be opened to same-sex couples.

In Schalk and Kopf v Austria (24 June 2010), the European Court of Human Rights decided that the European Convention on Human Rights does not oblige member states to legislate for or legally recognise same-sex marriages.[1] However, the Court, for the first time, accepted same-sex relationships as a form of "family life".

In Vallianatos and Others v Greece (7 November 2013),[2] the Court held that exclusion of same-sex couples from registering a civil union, a legal form of partnership available to opposite-sex couples, violates the Convention. Greece had enacted a law in 2008 that established civil unions for opposite-sex couples only. A 2015 law extended partnership rights to same-sex couples.

Oliari and Others v Italy (21 July 2015)[3] went further and established a positive obligation upon member states to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. Italy thus breached the Convention; it eventually implemented civil unions in 2016. The decision set a precedent for potential future cases regarding the 23 member states, certain British and Dutch territories, and the states with limited recognition (excluding Kosovo), that currently do not recognise same-sex couples' right to family life.[4]

Chapin and Charpentier v France (9 June 2016) largely confirmed Schalk and Kopf v. Austria, holding that denying a same-sex couple access to marriage does not violate the Convention.[5] At the time of the judgment, France did allow same-sex marriage, however, the case originated from 2004, when only pacte civil de solidarité (PACS) was available to same-sex couples in France.

European Union

Some debate occurred within the European Union about how to require member states to recognise same-sex marriages conducted in other member states, as well as any European citizens' civil unions or registered partnerships, so as to ensure the right of freedom of movement for citizens' family members.[6]

In 2010, Romanian LGBT activist Adrian Coman and his American partner, Robert Claibourn Hamilton, married in Belgium, and subsequently attempted to relocate to Romania. Romanian authorities refused to recognise their marriage and the case progressed to the European Court of Justice.[7] On 11 January 2018, the ECJ's advocate general, Melchior Wathelet, issued an official legal opinion stating that an EU member country cannot refuse residency rights to the same-sex spouse of an EU citizen on the grounds that it does not recognise same-sex marriage.[8]

On 5 June 2018, the ECJ ruled in Coman's favour, stating the term "spouse" was gender-neutral, and member states are therefore obliged to recognise EU residency rights for partners of EU citizens. However, the court confirmed that it will still be up to member states whether to authorise same-sex marriage.[9][10]

National level
Status Country Since Country population
(Last Census count)
Marriage
(16 countries)
* In nine countries that have passed marriage,
other types of partnerships are available too.		 Austria* 2019[11] 8,504,850
Belgium* 2003[12] 11,198,638
Denmark 2012[13] 5,655,750
Finland 2017[14][15] 5,470,820
France* 2013[16] 66,030,000
Germany 2017[17] 80,716,000
Iceland 2010[18] 325,671
Ireland 2015[19] 4,609,600
Luxembourg* 2015[20] 549,680
Malta* 2017[21] 446,547
Netherlands[nb 4]* 2001[22][23] 16,856,620
Norway 2009[24] 5,136,700
Portugal* 2010[25] 10,427,301
Spain* 2005[26] 46,704,314
Sweden 2009[27] 10,161,797
United Kingdom[nb 2]* 2020[28][29][30] 67,647,579
Subtotal — — 340,441,867
(45.5% of the European population)
Recognition of foreign marriage
(1 country)		 Estonia 2016[31] 1,315,819
Subtotal — — 1,315,819
(0.2% of the European population)
Other type of partnership
(12 countries)
* In four of the countries that have passed other types of partnerships,
yet another type of partnership is available too.		 Andorra* 2005[nb 5][32] 85,082
Croatia 2014[nb 6][33] 4,284,889
Czech Republic* 2006[nb 7][34] 10,513,209
Cyprus[nb 8] 2015[35] 1,117,000[nb 9]
Greece 2015[36] 10,816,286
Hungary* 2009[nb 10][37] 9,877,365
Italy* 2016[nb 11][38] 60,782,668
Liechtenstein 2011[39] 37,132
Monaco 2020[40] 36,371
San Marino 2019[41] 32,570
Slovenia 2006[nb 12][42][43] 2,061,085
Switzerland 2007[44] 8,183,800
Subtotal — — 107,791,086
(12.6% of the European population)
Unregistered cohabitation
(2 countries)		 Slovakia 2018[45][46] 5,415,949
Poland 2012[47] 38,516,527
Subtotal — — 43,932,476
(4.7% of the European population)
Total — — 496,500,102
(66.43% of the European population)
No recognition
(9 countries)		 Albania — 3,020,209
Azerbaijan — 9,494,600
Bosnia and Herzegovina — 3,871,643
Kazakhstan — 17,948,816
North Macedonia — 2,058,539
Romania — 19,942,642
Russia — 143,700,000
Turkey — 76,667,864
Vatican City — 842
Subtotal — — 276,741,526
(37.94% of the European population)
Constitutional ban on marriage
(14 countries)
** Other types of partnerships are available.		 Armenia 2015[48] 3,018,854
Belarus 1994[49] 9,475,100
Bulgaria 1991[50] 7,364,570
Croatia** 2013[51][52] 4,284,889
Georgia 2018[53] 4,935,880
Hungary** 2012[54][55] 9,877,365
Latvia 2006[56][57] 1,990,300
Lithuania 1992[58] 2,944,459
Moldova 1994[59] 3,557,600
Montenegro 2007[60] 647,905
Poland 1997[61][62][63][64] 38,483,957
Serbia 2006[65] 7,209,764
Slovakia 2014[66][67] 5,415,949
Ukraine 1996[68] 44,291,413
Subtotal — — 143,498,005
(18.66% of the European population)
Total — — 420,239,531
(49.3% of the European population)

Partially-recognised and unrecognised states
Status Country Since State population
(Last estimate count)
No recognition
(5 states)		 Abkhazia — 243,564
Kosovo — 1,907,592
Northern Cyprus — 313,626
South Ossetia — 51,547
Transnistria — 475,665
Subtotal — — 2,991,994
Constitutional ban on marriage
(1 state)		 Artsakh 2006[69] 150,932
Subtotal — — 150,932
Total — — 3,142,926

Sub-national level
Status Country Jurisdiction Legal since Jurisdiction population
(Last Census count)
Marriage
(7 jurisdictions)		 Denmark Faroe Islands 2017[70][71] 49,198
United Kingdom Akrotiri and Dhekelia 2014[72] 15,700
Alderney 2018[73] 2,020
Gibraltar 2016[74][75] 32,194
Guernsey 2017[76][77] 62,948
Isle of Man 2016[78] 84,497
Jersey 2018[79] 100,080
Sark 2020[80] 600
Total

Future legislation

Marriage

Government proposals or proposals with a parliamentary majority

Andorra: On 10 March 2020, the three parties forming the governing coalition, the Democrats, the Liberal Party and Committed Citizens, presented the draft of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage.[81][82][83] It will be consulted with the Bar Association and the Superior Council of Justice (CSJ), before being submitted to the parliament. If enacted, the bill would take effect on 1 June 2021.[84]

Czech Republic: On 13 June 2018, 46 deputies from ANO 2011, the Pirate Party, the Czech Social Democratic Party, the Communist Party, TOP 09 and Mayors and Independents submitted a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. The Civic Democratic Party, Freedom and Direct Democracy and KDU–ČSL are opposed.[85] On 22 June 2018, the Czech government gave their backing to the bill.[86] The first reading of the same-sex marriage bill was scheduled for 31 October, but was held some weeks later, on 14 November.[87][88] A vote on the legislation was expected on 26 March 2019 but did not take place.[89] On 10 January 2019, President Miloš Zeman stated that he might veto the bill legalising same-sex marriage, if it is passed by Parliament.[90][91] Such a veto would force a second vote on the law, with the support of 50% + 1 of deputies required to override the presidential veto and pass the law.

Switzerland: On 16 June 2017, the Federal Assembly voted by 118–71 in favour of a proposal by the Green Liberal party to launch a parliamentary study on same-sex marriage. On 6 July 2018, the Legal Affairs Committee voted to proceed with the initiative by legislation, rather than constitutional amendment and referendum. The National Council voted in favor of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage and allow lesbian couples to have access to artificial insemination and automatic co-parenting by 132-52 with 13 abstentions on 11 June 2020.[92] The bill heads to the Council of States for debate and approval in the autumn.

Non-marital partnership

Government proposals or proposals with a parliamentary majority

Lithuania: On 30 May 2017, Parliament approved a proposal to amend the Civil Code to recognise cohabitation agreements that would grant two or more cohabitants certain property rights without the intention to create family relations. With 46 in favor, 6 opposing and 17 abstentions, the draft proposal was approved for further consideration in the Lithuanian Parliament.[93]

Public opinion

Public support for same-sex marriage from EU member states as measured from a 2015 poll is the greatest in the Netherlands (91%), Sweden (90%), Denmark (87%), Spain (84%), Ireland (80%), Belgium (77%), Luxembourg (75%), the United Kingdom (71%) and France (71%).[94] In recent years, support has risen most significantly in Malta, from 18% in 2006 to 65% in 2015 and in Ireland from 41% in 2006 to 80% in 2015.[95]

After the approval of same-sex marriage in Portugal in January 2010, 52% of the Portuguese population stated that they were in favor of the legislation.[96] In 2008, 58% of the Norwegian voters supported same-sex marriage, which was introduced in the same year, and 31 percent were against it.[97] In January 2013, 54.1% of Italians respondents supported same-sex marriage.[98] In a late January 2013 survey, 77.2% of Italians respondents supported the recognition of same-sex unions.[99]

In Greece, support for same-sex marriages to be allowed throughout Europe more than doubled between 2006 and 2015, from 15% to 33%.[95]

In Ireland, a 2008 survey revealed 84% of people supported civil unions for same-sex couples (and 58% for same-sex marriage),[100] while a 2010 survey showed 67% supported same-sex marriage[101] by 2012 this figure had risen to 73% in support.[102] On 22 May 2015, 62.1% of the electorate voted to enshrine same-sex marriage in the Irish constitution as equal to heterosexual marriage.

A March 2013 survey by Taloustutkimus found that 58% of Finns supported same-sex marriage.[103]

In Croatia, a poll conducted in November 2013 revealed that 59% of Croats think that marriage should be constitutionally defined as a union between a man and a woman, while 31% do not agree with the idea.[104]

In Poland a 2013 public poll revealed that 70% of Poles reject the idea of registered partnerships.[105] Another survey in February 2013 revealed that 55% were against and 38% of Poles support the idea of registered partnerships for same-sex couples.[106]

In the European Union, support tends to be the lowest in Bulgaria, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Lithuania. The average percentage of support for same-sex marriage in the European Union as of 2006 when it had 25 members was 44%, which had descended from a previous percentage of 53%. The change was caused by more socially conservative nations joining the EU.[95] In 2015, with 28 members, average support was at 61%.[94]

Opinion polls
  Indicates the country/territory has legalised same-sex marriage nationwide
  Indicates that same-sex marriage is legal in certain parts of the country
  Indicates that the country has civil unions or registered partnerships
Opinion polls for same-sex marriage
Country Pollster Year For Against Neutral[lower-alpha 1] Source
 Albania NDI 2015 10% 88% 2% [107]
 Andorra Institut d'Estudis Andorrans 2013 70% 19% 11% [108]
 Armenia Pew Research Center 2015 3% 96% 1% [109][110]
 Austria Eurobarometer 2019 66% 30% 4% [111]
 Belarus Pew Research Center 2015 16% 81% 3% [109][112][110]
 Belgium Eurobarometer 2019 82% 17% 1% [111]
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Pew Research Center 2016 13% 84% 4% [109][110]
 Bulgaria Eurobarometer 2019 16% 74% 10% [111]
 Croatia Eurobarometer 2019 39% 55% 6% [111]
 Cyprus Eurobarometer 2019 36% 60% 4% [111]
 Czech Republic Median agency 2019 67% - - [113]
 Denmark Eurobarometer 2019 89% 8% 3% [111]
 Estonia Eurobarometer 2019 41% 51% 8% [111]
 Finland Eurobarometer 2019 76% 21% 3% [111]
 France Eurobarometer 2019 79% 15% 6% [111]
 Georgia Pew Research Center 2016 3% 95% 2% [109][110]
 Germany Eurobarometer 2019 84% 12% 4% [111]
 Greece Eurobarometer 2019 39% 56% 5% [111]
 Hungary Eurobarometer 2019 33% 61% 6% [111]
 Iceland Gallup 2004 87% - - [114]
 Ireland Eurobarometer 2019 79% 13% 8% [111]
 Italy Eurobarometer 2019 58% 35% 7% [111]
 Latvia Eurobarometer 2019 24% 70% 6% [111]
 Liechtenstein Eurobarometer 2019 69% 27% 18% [111]
 Lithuania Eurobarometer 2019 30% 63% 7% [111]
 Luxembourg Eurobarometer 2019 85% 9% 6% [111]
 Malta Eurobarometer 2019 67% 25% 8% [111]
 Moldova Pew Research Center 2015 5% 92% 3% [109][110]
 Netherlands Eurobarometer 2019 92% 8% 0% [111]
 Norway Pew Research Center 2017 72% 19% 9% [112]
 Poland Eurobarometer 2019 45% 50% 5% [111]
 Portugal Eurobarometer 2019 74% 20% 6% [111]
 Romania Eurobarometer 2019 29% 63% 8% [111]
 Russia FOM 2019 7% 87% 6% [115]
 Serbia Pew Research Center 2015 12% 83% 4% [109][110]
 Slovakia Eurobarometer 2019 20% 70% 10% [111]
 Slovenia Eurobarometer 2019 62% 35% 3% [111]
 Spain Eurobarometer 2019 86% 9% 5% [111]
 Sweden Eurobarometer 2019 92% 6% 2% [111]
  Switzerland gfs-zürich 2020 81% 18% 1% [116]
 Ukraine Pew Research Center 2016 9% 85% 6% [109][110]
 United Kingdom Eurobarometer 2019 85% 12% 3% [111]
Opinion polls for same-sex marriage by dependent territory
Country Pollster Year For Against Neutral[lower-alpha 1] Source
 Faroe Islands Gallup Føroyar 2016 64% 30% 6% [117]
 Gibraltar Inter-Ministerial Committee Consultation 2015 63% 37% 0% [118]
Northern Ireland YouGov 2019 55% - - [119][120]

Notes
  1. Also comprises: Don't know; No answer; Other; Refused.

See also

Notes
  1. Including Armenia, but excluding Greenland.
  2. Including all Crown Dependencies, and European overseas territories
  3. Excluding Guernsey and Overseas Territories (except Gibraltar).
  4. Excluding Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
  5. Stable union since 2005 and civil union since 2014.
  6. Unregistered cohabitation between 2003 and 2014. Life partnerships životno partnerstvo since 2014.
  7. Unregistered cohabitation since 2001 and registered partnerships registrované partnerství since 2006.
  8. Excluding the disputed region of Northern Cyprus.
  9. Including the disputed region of Northern Cyprus.
  10. Unregistered cohabitation élettársi kapcsolat and registered partnerships bejegyzett élettársi kapcsolat since 2009.
  11. Civil unions and cohabitation agreements since 2016.
  12. Registrirana partnerska skupnost between 2006 and 2017. Partnership (partnerska zveza) since 2017.

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