EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY

Interview FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS: “We want to keep up the pressure on all those who consider that the freedoms of LGBTIQ people should be restricted”, insists Pierre Karleskind

Brussels, 09/03/2021 (Agence Europe)

After a debate in plenary session on Wednesday 10 March, the European Parliament will vote on a resolution composed of a few recitals and a single statement: the European Union is a “zone of freedom for LGBTIQ people”. A response to the homophobic provisions that emerged in Poland precisely two years ago, in March 2019, in the city of Świdnik. Since then, almost 100 Polish local and regional authorities have adopted resolutions declaring their territory “LGBT ideology-free” (see...