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European Court of Justice:
Registered partnerships have to be treated on the same footing as marriage
In a landmark judgment just delivered the highest court of the European Union decided that the 27 member-states have to treat same-sex registered partnerships equally to marriage.
This judgment came in a case on widowers pensions (Tadao Maruko vs. VdBB) represented by the Vienna attorney and RKL-president Dr. Helmut Graupner on behalf of ILGA-Europe (the European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay Organisation ILGA). Mr. Maruko for years lived with his partner in registered partnership. After his partner had died the VddB, the pension scheme for German theatres, refused to pay him a survivors pension as such pension are provided only for married partners. Mr. Maruko sued the VddB and the Bavarian Administrative Court Munich referred the case to the ECJ for interpretation of the EU-Antidiscrimination-Directive.
Details follow soon.
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