WARSAW, Poland (AP) — 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. “This morning we issued the first transcription of a marriage certificate for a same-sex couple, in accordance with the court rulings,” Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski announced. The mayor also promised his city would proactively recognize other Polish same-sex marriages registered elsewhere in the EU even without a specific court ruling.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that his government would find ways to implement the rulings as soon as possible, and, addressing same-sex couples, apologized “to all those who, for many years, felt rejected and humiliated.”
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