{"id":2697,"date":"2021-03-12T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hw54cbnnbb.preview.infomaniak.website\/news\/eu-declared-lgbtiq-freedom-zone-parliament\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:07:39","slug":"eu-declared-lgbtiq-freedom-zone-parliament","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/news\/eu-declared-lgbtiq-freedom-zone-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"EU declared as “LGBTIQ Freedom zone” by the Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although there were a few refractory people, the vote in Parliament was broadly supported.<\/strong> The Resolution, which is highly meaningful, was passed with 492 votes in favour, 141 against and 46 abstentions<\/strong>. This came a day after the Secretary of State for European Affairs Cl\u00e9ment Beaune <\/strong>was banned<\/a> from accessing one of the 88 Poland “LGBT-free” zones<\/strong>. These municipalities had pledged to stop supporting actions <\/strong>that promote tolerance towards LBGTIQ+ people and had suspended financial support for NGOs <\/strong>fighting for their rights.  <\/p>\n

“Being yourself is not an ideology”<\/h2>\n

The Commission also supported the Parliament’s Resolution. Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> tweeted<\/a>: “You are at home in the EU. The EU is an LGBTQI freedom zone<\/strong><\/em>“. More than words, the Commission has put in place strong measures to combat these fundamental rights violations. It has initiated infringement procedures, frozen the payment of EU funds <\/strong>(therefore conditioned by respect for the rule of law) <\/strong>for these areas and triggered Article 7 of the TEU<\/a>, admitting “the existence of a serious and persistent breach <\/strong>by a Member State” of EU values. <\/strong>The final word will then lie to the European Council,<\/strong> which is expected to decide unanimously on the issue soon and possibly take binding measures against Poland.<\/p>\n

Hungary is also pointed out<\/h2>\n

Hungary is not to be outdone either. The Hungarian city of Nagyk\u00e1ta <\/strong>generated a resolution against the “dissemination and promotion of LGBTIQ propaganda”<\/strong>. This was followed by a parliamentary resolution adopting deeply dehumanising constitutional amendments restricting the rights of LGBTIQ persons.<\/strong> These include the non-recognition of the existence of transgender and non-binary people in the country and the restriction of their right <\/strong>to a family life.<\/p>\n

Much remains to be done against the repeated discriminations and persecutions against LGBTIQ+<\/strong> people in these countries. POUR LA SOLIDARITE-PLS<\/strong> welcomes the measures taken by the European Parliament and the Commission and calls on authorities at all levels of government to join this struggle for equality<\/strong> and for the full guarantee of fundamental rights of all individuals.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2698,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crsspst_to_hw54cbngfnpreviewinfomaniakwebsite":false,"_crsspst_to_ess-europeeu":false,"_crsspst_to_transition-europeeu":false},"internal_contacts":[],"countries":[65],"thematics":[85,89,83],"class_list":["post-2697","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","countries-unioneuropenne","thematics-discrimination","thematics-lesbiengaybisexueltransgenrelgbt","thematics-rsediversit"],"acf":{"content_resume":"

In response to the repeated rights violations by some Polish local authorities against LGBTIQ+ people and the multiplication of \"LGBT-free zones\" on the territory, the Members of the European Parliament adopted on Thursday 11th of March a Resolution declaring the EU a \"freedom zone\". <\/strong><\/p>","thematique_principale":"","pls_publication":false,"date_content_start":"2021-03-12 00:00:00","date_content_end":null,"content_link":"

 \u00a9 JOHN THYS\/AFP<\/p>

On the retreat from the rule of law in Europe<\/a> (FR)<\/p>

On the European democratic deficit<\/a> (FR)<\/p>

About the LGBTQI+ communities in Poland<\/a> (FR)<\/font><\/u><\/p>

On the the democratic regression in Hungary<\/a> <\/p>","site_web_de_la_news":"","news_libelle-site":"","Fichier_attache_nom_01":"","Fichier_attache_document_01":null,"Fichier_attache_URL_01":"","Fichier_attache_nom_02":"","Fichier_attache_document_02":null,"Fichier_attache_URL_02":"","Fichier_attache_nom_03":"","Fichier_attache_document_03":null,"Fichier_attache_URL_03":"","Fichier_attache_nom_04":"","Fichier_attache_document_04":null,"Fichier_attache_URL_04":"","Fichier_attache_nom_05":"","Fichier_attache_document_05":null,"Fichier_attache_URL_05":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"internal_contacts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_contacts?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"thematics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diversite-europe.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematics?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}