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A new EU Asylum Agency report tracking 20 months of case law finds real progress for queer and trans asylum seekers in Europe, and a persistent gap for intersex applicants that only a handful of countries address directly.
Advocate General Laila Medina's opinion in Case C-449/25 would leave a British woman without residence rights in Romania. It is advisory, not a ruling — and the distinction matters enormously.
Péter Magyar says his government will change the rules that keep same-sex couples from adopting. A day after HRW's assessment of the repeal bill, the shape of the unfinished work is clear: one surviving clause in the Family Protection Act, the constitution, and the law used to ban Pride.
Péter Magyar's government tabled the bill on Monday, five months after the EU's top court found the 2021 law breached the Union's founding values. It is the beginning of an unwinding — but it leaves the constitutional amendment, the adoption ban and legal gender recognition untouched.
The passport went to a non-binary Austrian living in Germany, and it's the first real-world test of a European Court of Justice ruling requiring EU states to recognize legal gender changes registered in another member state.
Starting August 23, Polish registry offices will transcribe same-sex marriages performed abroad for the first time ever. The government is moving ahead anyway, even after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled the plan unconstitutional.
Romanian city officials rejected all 115 proposed routes for Oradea Pride, but organizers marched through the city center regardless, facing fines but no arrests.
An EU member state that banned 'LGBT propaganda' in schools, refuses to recognize same-sex couples, and won't let trans people change their documents. Bulgaria is one of the hardest places to be openly queer in the Union — and one of the most overlooked.
Brussels has a five-year plan to protect and empower LGBTIQ+ people across the bloc. The ambition is genuine — but for the Balkans and the countries queuing to join, what happens next depends on whether anyone makes it bite.
June 20 marks World Refugee Day and the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention. For LGBTQ+ people who flee, the journey to safety in Europe rarely ends at the border — and the Balkan route runs straight through countries still debating whether queer people deserve protection at all.
Twenty-six diplomatic missions have urged Cyprus to finally adopt a national LGBT strategy while it holds the EU Council presidency. The island ranks near the bottom of Europe's Rainbow Map — and the timing is pointed.
Thousands filled central Zagreb on June 6 for the 25th Povorka ponosa, a march that has run without interruption since 2002 and now anchors Pride season in the Western Balkans.
EU institutions launched a synchronized pro-LGBTQ+ campaign ahead of Pride Month, promoting the new 2026-2030 Equality Strategy. Supporters and critics agree on one thing: it is unusually coordinated.
May 17 is here. The European Union has issued its annual IDAHOBIT statement, the Council of Europe is convening foreign ministers in Copenhagen, and the global theme — At the Heart of Democracy — is doing more work than usual. A day-of look at what is actually happening.
Croatia is now the most legally protective country in the Western Balkans for LGBTQ+ people — but the road from constitutional ban to court-ordered adoption rights ran through 25 years of Pride marches, not parliamentary good will.
Hungary's incoming prime minister campaigned on vague promises of tolerance and almost no direct commitments on queer rights. The European Court of Justice has just forced the question onto his agenda.
The Court of Justice of the European Union found that Hungary's 2021 'propaganda' law violates core EU values — the first time the bloc has ruled a member state breached Article 2 of its founding treaty.
Péter Magyar's landslide victory ends 16 years of Fidesz rule and Europe's most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ government. But the new prime minister's record on queer rights is cautious at best.
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony faces criminal charges for co-organizing last summer's banned Pride march. Meanwhile, Hungary is gearing up to use biometric surveillance against future attendees — a move the EU says may violate its own AI Act.
In a 340-to-141 vote, the European Parliament adopted a recommendation calling for 'the full recognition of trans women as women' — a striking statement amid a global wave of anti-trans legislation.
The European Commission has launched its second LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy, a five-year roadmap targeting hate speech, conversion practices, employment discrimination, and legal gender recognition across all 27 member states.
