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The term 'spouse' in EU legislation is gender neutral, says advocate general (Photo: zelle duda)

EU top lawyer says Romania must accept gay partners

One of the EU's most senior legal advisers has said that same-sex partners of EU citizens enjoy the same free movement rights as partners of a different gender.

Advocate general Melchior Wathelet at the Court of Justice of the European Union wrote in an opinion published on Thursday (11 January) that Romania was wrong to deny a work and residence permit to the male spouse of a Romanian man.

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