The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.

The court said on Tuesday that Poland had been wrong in not recognising the marriage of the couple when they moved back to Poland, on the grounds that Polish law does not allow marriage between people of the same sex.

“It infringes not only the freedom to move and reside, but also the fundamental right to respect for private and family life,” the EU court of justice said.

In predominantly Catholic Poland, the struggle for LGBT+ equality for years was described by those in power as a dangerous foreign ideology. However, the current government has been working on a bill to regulate

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