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EU creates greater protections for LGBTQ+ people

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On Thursday November 12, the European Union’s executive commission launched its first scheme to protect LGBTQ+ citizens in response to growing discrimination in countries such as Poland and Hungary.

According to Reuters, the new campaign, named the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy, aims to oppose right-wing regimes of prejudice against queer people after 43% of LGBTQ+ people reported being discriminated against in the last year.EU commission vice-president Vera Jourova said: “We will defend the rights of LGBTQ+ people against those who now have more and more appetite to attack them from this ideological point of view…This belongs to the authoritarian playbook and it does not have a place in the EU.” Hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community in Europe.

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