 On 31 January 2017, the Supreme Court of Cassation (Italy) refused, on procedural grounds, to rescind a lower judgment recognising a marriage between two French women (one of these had the right to claim Italian citizenship "iure sanguinis"), officiated in the French region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.This is the first time a same-sex marriage is admitted in Italy, but the judgment does not imply that this will necessarily be the case in general terms.Within July 2017, both the Parliaments of Germany and Malta approved bills to allow same-sex marriage.