Poland will begin recognizing same-sex marriages concluded in other European Union countries. The country’s Supreme Administrative Court issued that ruling on March 20, DW reports.
The decision was handed down in the case of a Polish couple who married in Germany in 2018. The spouses later came to Warsaw, where the authorities refused to register their marriage, citing the constitutional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
In November 2025, the European Court in Luxembourg ruled that refusing to register such a marriage violates EU law. Following that, the Polish court found no grounds to believe that “entering a record of the marriage of persons of the same sex poses a threat to the principles of public order.”
As AFP writes, the ruling was met with applause in the courtroom, where activists and same-sex couples had gathered.
At the beginning of March, the marriage of two men was recognized in Ukraine for the first time.