Polish protest at equal treatment for homosexuals

At the beginning of the week the Italian communist MEP Giusto Catania introduced a resolution in the European Parliament granting homosexual couples an equal status to heterosexual marriages. Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper writes: "Catania is convinced that people's fundamental rights ... are not always respected in the European Union. According to him - supported by the vast majority of representatives - the states of the EU should make things easier for homosexual couples by according them privileges that are also valid in other EU countries - independently of whether they are legally married or not. The radical Right in the European Parliament (especially the Polish MEPs of the conservative Law and Justice party), have all protested. ... 'The European Parliament has passed the most dangerous document I have seen in my term in office', says the Polish conservative MEP Konrad Szymański."

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