Demonstrators take part in the Equality March in support of the LGBT community, in Lodz, Poland, on June 26.The European Commission has written to five Polish regional councils urging them to abandon declarations that they are “LGBT-free” in order to receive funding, one of the councils affected confirmed on Monday.
Polish LGBT activists posted a scan of the letter on social media and on Monday a spokesman for the Lubelskie region confirmed receiving it. A European Commission spokeswoman in Warsaw also confirmed the letter had been sent.“The Commission would like to stress that declaring LGBTIQ-free/unwelcome territories, workplace or services constitutes an action that is against the values set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union,” the letter said.
The funds are part of REACT-EU , a package of additional cohesion funds under which Poland has been allocated a total of over 1.5 billion euros. Many religious conservatives see the fight for LGBT equality as an attack on traditional values. In 2019 numerous local authorities declared themselves free of “LGBT ideology”, seeking to ban what they see as the promotion of homosexuality and other minority sexual identities, especially in schools.A European Commission spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment on the letter. The Polish Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
I wonder if O’Toole supports this move by an IDU country, considering he is a member
Those regions should be supported.
Lose funding? What. How about some more forcible sanctions. Aligning with the US and place economic pressure on Poland. We have to stop handling these issues in a genteel manner
And then one day for no reason at all
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