Gay Marriages across Europe

[andrewducker]

It's been possible for gay people to get married in the Netherlands, but travelling elsewhere meant that their marriages weren't recognised.

Now, however, the EU is set to state that if people are married in one country in the EU, they are married in all of them.

I can see a lot of people moving to the Netherlands to get married...

Which will, of course, spur other countries to liberalise their laws.

About time too.

Comments

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

I'm FAIRLY sure that there's an official partnership deal in Sweden...not CERTAIN...but anyhoo...

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

All three Scandinavian countries recognise some form of civil recognition of same-sex partnerships. It's not marriage, though, and although all three (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) recognise each other's civil registered partnerships, no other country does.

The advance on making it marriage (as the Netherlands has) is that legal marriage is customarily recognised across all borders.