Brussels, 12/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - Employees who enter into a civil partnership (PACS arrangement) with a partner of the same sex must be granted the same benefits as those granted to their colleagues upon their marriage, where marriage is not possible for homosexual couples. The refusal to grant them those benefits constitutes direct discrimination based on sexual orientation.
This, in essence, is what is stated in a ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU dated 12 December...