Poland and Hungary have erased gender equality from the social commitments of the European Union
The two countries have lobbied to remove gender references in the declaration signed by Union leaders in Porto. Yet another episode of their war on lgbt + rights
(Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images) Poland and Hungary have requested and obtained the removal of the phrase "promoting gender equality" from the joint declaration of the 27 European leaders at the summit Porto on defining the Union's social policy agenda. The sovereign leaders of the two countries insist on their battle against gender equality and the lgbtq + community.The Polish nationalist party, Law and Justice (Pis) and its Eurosceptic and sovereign ally Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary , have made opposition to the rights of the lgbtq + community a trademark. Poland, for example, has created LGBTQ + free zones on its territory, which are worryingly reminiscent of the Nazi regime's Judenfrei (areas free from people of Jewish origin). Furthermore, Poland and Hungary have opposed the inclusion of the protection of gender equality in the free trade treaties between the European Union and developing countries.
The draft of the joint declaration of the Porto Summit held on May 7, reports the Reuters news agency, contained the indication that the European Union would "promote gender equality". However, following Polish and Hungarian pressure, the final version was changed as follows: "We will increase efforts to combat discrimination and we will actively work to close the gender gap and to promote equality". Eliminating the reference to the genre, in order to weaken the enunciation.
Also Reuters, reporting the declarations of the European diplomats present at the summit, reports that express requests for the use of a less direct language would have arrived from Warsaw and Budapest, thus watering down the sense of commitment put in black and white . However, the other chancelleries have failed to find an agreement to corner the pressure from Poland and Hungary, agreeing to rewrite the draft. The governments of the two countries insisted on conservative and traditional social values even during the summit. Values that in their own national territories have gone hand in hand with an increase in state control over the media, the judiciary and university institutions.
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