The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held a hearing on Tuesday 9 February as part of case (C-490/20) involving a female couple – one Bulgarian woman and one Gibraltar-born British woman – and the municipality of Sofia, Bulgaria. The municipality had refused to issue a birth certificate for the couple’s daughter, who was born in Spain in 2019 and who might therefore find herself stateless.
The Bulgarian authorities are of the opinion that it is impossible for a same-sex...