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Maruko v Versorgungsanstalt der deutschen Bühnen, ECJ case C-267/06 - widow/widowers' occupational pensions and homosexuals - ECJ Advocate General's opinion of 6.9.07

Loosely translated from the French, the Advocate-General's non-binding opinion is that "refusal to pay a surviving spouse pension to the surviving member of a formally registered partnership between people of the same sex because there was no marriage - which is something which can only take place between persons of different sex - amounts to indirect discrimination by reason of sexual orientation prohibited by Directive 2000/78/EC if the partnership

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