The Court of Justice of the EU’s Advocate General Juliane Kokott delivered her opinion on Thursday, 15 April, in the case (C-490/20) between the municipality of Sofia, Bulgaria, and a married couple consisting of two women who were unable to obtain a birth certificate for their daughter from the municipality (see EUROPE B12654A21).
The child was born in Spain. Wanting her to have EU citizenship, the two women had no choice but to turn to Bulgaria, of which one of them is a...