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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Claudia Ciobanu

Polish capital makes history with the first same-sex marriage registration

Poland Marriage Equality - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Poland’s capital, Warsaw, registered its first same-sex marriage on Thursday, implementing court rulings that require the country to recognize same-sex marriages registered abroad.

The European Union’s highest court in November ordered Poland to register same-sex marriages that were entered into in other EU countries even if Polish law does not currently permit them. In March, Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court cited that ruling in ordering authorities to recognize the marriage in Germany of two Polish men.

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