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Prime Minister Albin Kurti told the Assembly that Kosovo needs a full reform of its civil law, as an opposition MP vowed to block two paragraphs on same-sex unions. Three bills, including IVF access for single women and lesbian couples, are now on the government's agenda before the end of the year.
Justina Shiroka-Pula's last-minute election on October 7 kept Kosovo's Assembly from dissolving into a fourth snap vote. That keeps same-sex partnerships in the Civil Code possible, though still far from certain.
Two days after we landed in Pristina, the Assembly finally confirmed a new Kurti cabinet with a single vote to spare. We've been reading what that narrow majority, and the unresolved fight over the presidency, mean for same-sex partnerships.
Kosovo's constitution already promises equality, and its prime minister has backed civil unions. So why has the Civil Code that would deliver them been stuck in the Assembly for years?
A Supreme Court ruling recognized a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Months earlier, a new Civil Code wrote them out of the definition entirely. Ukraine is now moving in two directions at once.
