The European Union threatened to block 126 million euros (about 150 million dollars), which should have been allocated to local governments from the cohesion fund. The promised money can lose five voivodes (provinces), where laws that infringe upon the rights of gays, lesbians and other sex minorities are operating. Reports about it Bloomberg.
The European Commission sent the chapters of the voivodes of the corresponding warnings. They indicate that money will be kept if resolutions against LGBTC will not cancel. The funds must be allocated within the framework of the React-EU program aimed at helping European economies to cope with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
For several years, Polish Gmines (municipalities), ties (counties) and the voivodship one after another declared themselves “zones free from LGBT.” Local authorities accepted resolutions prohibiting demonstrating the symbolism of sexual minorities or their belonging to them. According to June last year, about 100 municipalities (including five voivodes) covering about a third of the country have introduced such laws.
EU announced a possible blocking of financial assistance against the background of the postpandemic crisis of the Polish economy. The former head of the National Bank of Marek Belka said that because of the poorly contained growth in inflation, the country faces a catastrophe. “Salaries that grow faster than prices will lead to even greater inflation in the future,” he said.
Poland is not the only European country that does not share the position of the EU relative to sex minorities. In July, the European Commission did not approve the plan for stimulating the economy of Hungary in the amount of 7.2 billion euros because of the LGBT propaganda ban.