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Poland to give money to 'LGBT free' towns denied EU funding
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Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, the leader of the right-wing, Catholic-nationalist United Poland party, handed over a symbolic cheque of 250,000 zloty (€57,000) to the mayor of Tuchow at a ceremony on Tuesday.Tuchow, located some 100 km east of Krakow, was one of six cities in Poland whose applications for EU grants were rejected last month because of their attitude to the LGBTQ community.
The bloc's Equality Commissioner Helena Dalli stressed then that "EU values and fundamental rights must be respected by member states and public authorities".The money Tuchow will receive from the government is thee times the amount it had applied for under the EU twinning programme, Ziobro said.He also doubled down on his accusation that Brussels is.
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