意大利是西欧唯一同性婚姻未合法国家_时事

意大利是西欧唯一同性婚姻未合法国家

A small number of municipalities in Italy allow local civil unions, but there is a national ban onsame-sex marriage and the benefits of the existing provision are limited。

意大利只有少数省份允许当地同性婚姻，但是全国禁止同性婚姻，现行规定给人们带来的好处非常有限。

The court said the existing legal protection was "not sufficiently reliable". It noted that 24 outof the 47 member states of the Council of Europe had passed laws in favour of legalrecognition, and that the Italian constitutional court had repeatedly called for suchprotection and recognition。

法院表示现行的法律保护措施“并不完全可靠。欧洲委员会47个成员国中有24个国家已经通过支持认可同性婚姻的法律，意大利立宪法院也反复呼吁通过此类保护型或者认可型的法律。

The three couples in the case have been together for years, and all had their requests to bemarried rejected. The ECHR ruled that the Italian government should pay the six men Euro5,000 each in compensation, as well as expenses。

案件中涉及的三对伴侣在一起已经多年，但结婚申请都遭到了拒绝。欧洲人权法案规定意大利政府向此六人支付5000欧赔偿费用。

The prime minister has said his government would introduce laws on same-sex civil unions thisyear. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in Rome in June against the proposedlegislation. But opinion polls show an increase in support for gay marriage.It follows a patternseen in Ireland - a Catholic country like Italy - where voters overwhelmingly backed legalisingsame-sex marriages in May。