Editing Civil union (section)

====Austria====
{{Main|Recognition of same-sex unions in Austria}}
In 2018, Minister of Justice Josef Moser announced that both marriage and registered partnership would be open to homosexuals and heterosexuals. This occurred because Helga Ratzenböck and Martin Seydl have been appealing for years{{Clarify timeframe|date=April 2021}} in court for a registered civil partnership in Austria. At the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in Strasbourg they attempted to sue Austria for discrimination against their sexuality,{{When|date=April 2021}} because they were a heterosexual couple and were excluded from the benefits of registered partnership, but this failed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Verpartnern für alle: 'Uns fällt ein Stein vom Herzen'|url=https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/Verpartnern-fuer-alle-Uns-faellt-ein-Stein-vom-Herzen;art4,2995874|access-date=2021-04-27|website=nachrichten.at|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Verfassungsgerichtshof entscheidet|url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/1285200270647/ep-fuer-heterosexuelle-verfassungsgerichtshof-entscheidet|access-date=2021-04-27|website=DER STANDARD|language=de-AT}}</ref> Only when the Constitutional Court of Austria opened up marriage to homosexuals in December 2018 registered partnerships also become possible for heterosexuals. After 35 years of living together, the two entered into a registered partnership in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Verpartnert": Für dieses Paar ging ein Traum in Erfüllung|url=https://www.nachrichten.at/oberoesterreich/verpartnert-fuer-dieses-paar-ging-ein-traum-in-erfuellung;art4,3139255|access-date=2024-06-20|website=nachrichten.at|language=de-AT}}</ref>