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1. Al-Dulimi and Montana Management Inc. v. Switzerland [GC], no. 5809/08, 21 June 2016. 2. Anheuser-Busch Inc. v. Portugal [GC], no. 73049/01, ECHR 2007-I. 3. Centre for Legal Resources on behalf of Valentin Câmpeanu v. Romania [GC], no. 47848/08, ECHR 2014. 4. Comingersoll S.A. v. Portugal [GC], no. 35382/97, ECHR 2000-IV. 5. G.I.E.M. S.R.L. and Others v. Italy [GC], nos. 1828/06 and 2 others, 28 June 2018. 6. Könyv-Tár Kft and Others v. Hungary , no. 21623/13, 16 October 2018. 7. Magyar Jeti Zrt v. Hungary , no. 11257/16, 4 December 2018. 8. O’Sullivan McCarthy Mussel Development Ltd v. Ireland , no. 44460/16, 7 June 2018. 9. OAO Neftyanaya Kompaniya Yukos v. Russia (just satisfaction), no. 14902/04, 31 July 2014. 10. Refah Partisi (the Welfare Party) and Others v. Turkey [GC], nos. 41340/98, 41342/98, 41343/98 and 41344/98, ECHR 2003-II. 11. Sanoma Uitgevers B.V. v. the Netherlands [GC], no. 38224/03, 14 September 2010. 12. Satakunnan Markkinapörssi Oy and Satamedia Oy v. Finland [GC], no. 931/13, 27 June 2017. 13. Senator Lines GmbH v. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom (dec.) [GC], no. 56672/00, ECHR 2004-IV. 14. Sindicatul “Păstorul cel Bun” v. Romania [GC], no. 2330/09, ECHR 2013 (extracts) 15. Verein gegen Tierfabriken Schweiz (VgT) v. Switzerland (no. 2) [GC], no. 32772/02, ECHR 2009. Same-sex civil partnerships The applicant, the private company Mladina d.d. Ljubljana, whose registered office is in Ljubljana, is the publisher of the weekly magazine Mladina . On 16 and 22 June 2005, the National Assembly (hereinafter –“Parliament”) examined a draft law on same-sex civil partnerships. At a later date it adopted the Registration of Same-Sex Civil Partnerships Act (hereinafter – “the Act”). During the parliamentary debate on the issue, certain deputies of the Slovenian National Party (hereinafter – “the SNP”), which opposed legal recognition of same-sex partnerships, took the floor in order to express their disagreement with the proposed draft. On 27 June 2005, the Mladina magazine published a one-page article entitled “Registration of Same-Sex Civil Partnerships Act adopted”, with the standfirst: “Right-wingers are full of pride, but according to non-governmental organisations the Act is not consistent with the Constitution”, summarising the parliamentary debate preceding the adoption of the Act. The first three paragraphs of the article read as follows: “Last week, the second reading of the proposed Act on the registration of same-sex civil partnerships ended up as a crash course in narrow-mindedness, pervaded by a Stone Age mentality. Our elected representatives were so keen to reject amendments to the draft [and the] actual rights of same-sex oriented citizens that they decided to pass the Act at CASE STUDIES

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