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Same-sex parents and their children must be recognised as a family across whole EU, rules court
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The EU's top court has ruled that same-sex parents and their children must be recognised as a family in all member states.
In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) said that if one country acknowledges a parental relationship with a child, then every member state should do the same in order to guarantee the child's right to free movement.
The case came before the court after Bulgarian authorities refused to give a birth certificate to the new-born daughter of a same-sex couple on the basis that a child cannot have two mothers.
Bulgarian Kalina Ivanova and British Gibraltar-born Jane Jones are both registered as the mothers of Sara, who was born in Spain in 2019.
But neither parents are of Spanish descent, meaning
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