After Ireland's victory I've been wondering, who do you think is next and when?
Germany/Austria/Switzerland all have pending bills.
Germany: The ruling coalition has said No so far, but will they change their minds? JULY UPDATE: Forget it. Pray4ha.
Austria: Same situation as Germany, but their Constitutional Court who always rules for LGBT in their latest ruling on adoption not only said to extend that right, but gave the country a deadline. Maybe they could put a deadline for marriage too.
Switzerland: First their government has to pass a bill and then the people vote on it since Switzerland believes in direct democracy. The process can be long from bill to vote though as it took several years for partnerships to come into place after the Partnership bill was first submitted into Parliament. UPDATE: The Swiss can force the government to let them vote on the issue within a few months if they collect 100,000 signatures and so far they have over 10,000.
Unless Austria's Court kicks Parliament in the ass again I think it'll be Germany. Switzerland's process barely cleared the first committee All three and maybe even others could have it by 2020, but I think Germany will have next year or 2017 at the latest.
Italy also has a pending marriage bill, but they're struggling to just get civil unions ready
If Gay marriage is legal in Cyprus, that would be amazing since 28-something% of the population is Muslim.
Whatever law gets passed in Cyprus will only apply to the southern half . As long as the island's split they'll pass all their laws separately; for example the southern part of Cyprus got rid of their sodomy law inherited from UK colonialism in the 90s while Northern Cyprus barely took it off their books last year.
Germany would be HUGE deal. Right now the rule is that you have to pass anti-discriminations laws in employment if you are a member/want to become a member of EU, but if Germany were to get gay marriage that might even make giving couples a union law a requirement too. Or it might affect the European Court so any country who sues for marriage will win since so much of the EU population would have it The last time the EuroCourt said no to a marriage case they argued that not that many places had it yet.
I would say Germany... Shouldn't Slovenia be dark blue already?
About Hungary, I think we just need to kick this horrible government out and get one of the left wing liberals govern the country again, then the constitutional ban will be lifted in no time so we get gay marriage through as well. Well at least we have civil unions...
No Germany won't happen anytime soon. Even though many people are here for it and most of the parties are in support for it, the lead party with Merkel isn't. And all coalition partners so far have ignored the issue as soon as they went into a coalition with Merkel's party.
It's not happening with Merkel in Germany anytime soon. How is the process in CR going on?
Czech Republic? No marriage bill yet, the focus is completely on adoption right now. A stepchild adoption bill is stalled in Parliament so one man sued for full adoption at the High Court.