With anti-LGBT campaigns flaring up across Europe, MEPs have symbolically voted to declare the whole of the European Union a so-called freedom zone for LGBTQI people.The ballot passed on Thursday, with 492 MEPs voting in favour and 141 against.
There were 46 abstentions.Terry Reintke, a German Green MEP who is a member of the LGBT community, said: "We know that our lives are still in danger, our rights restricted, our freedom brutally suffocated in far far too many places in the EU."But it is a step and we are many, we are everywhere, and we are strong."The freedom zone move is in reaction to more than 100 municipalities in Poland declaring themselves zones free of LGBT people and ideology.But MEPs aligned with the Polish government,.