Hungary where regions have set themselves against the “ideology” of equality.Two years after the first local authority in Poland declared itself an ‘‘LGBTIQ-free zone’’, the European parliament adopted its resolution by 492 votes in favour, 141 against and 46 abstentions.Among those who opposed the resolution were eleven members of the European people’s party, the centre-right grouping the parliament in which Angela Merkel’s CDU sits.MEPs said in their resolution that people “in the EU should enjoy the freedom to live and publicly show their sexual orientation and gender identity without fear of intolerance, discrimination or persecution”.“Authorities at all levels of governance across the EU should protect and promote equality and the.