Same-sex marriage in Belgium 14 December and published on 23 December 1999 made the Act of statutory cohabitation go into effect on 1 January 2000. During 1999, the PS (French-speaking Social Democrats) and Ecolo (French-speaking Greens) also announced they agreed to legalise same-sex marriage. At that point, the only remaining party in Government that opposed same-sex marriage was the French-speaking liberal PRL (later merged into MR), mainly because it was opposed to adoption rights for same-sex couples. PRL agreed not to block same-sex marriage if adoption rights are excluded. As the first same-sex marriage in the Netherlands was performed on 1 April 2001, the
Recognition of same-sex unions in Greece allowing the registration of same-sex relationships soon. In February 2013, Minister of Justice Antonis Roupakiotis stated that the Government considers amending the cohabitation agreement law to include same-sex couples. On 7 November 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in "Vallianatos and Others v. Greece" that excluding same-sex couples from cohabitation agreements is discriminatory. On 12 November, PASOK announced its intention to introduce a bill extending the cohabitation agreement law to same-sex couples. In November 2014, it was announced that many major changes to Greece's Family Law would be considered, the most prominent being the extension of cohabitation