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Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Maria Walsh
Political group: PPE
Country: Austria
Language: EN

Colleagues, the right to equal treatment and non-discrimination is a fundamental right enshrined in the EU Treaties. On 8 March, Ireland will hold two referendums that directly impact the LGBTI+ community: one question focuses on the family and the second on care. These are progressive referendums that, in my eyes, will ensure the empowerment of our citizens to shape their country’s future, uphold democratic values, and promote equality, dignity and respect for all families. Let me focus on the first one, which is to amend Article 41. The positive impact in revising the definition of ‘family’ is to explicitly provide a wider concept of family beyond just the traditional concept of marriage. If passed, we will recognise the diversity of families that exist in our society, ensuring rainbow families, one-parent families and couples – regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity – are recognised in the Irish Constitution, acknowledging their rights as equal members of our society. I urge Irish people to continue to follow the path to progress, to vote and safeguard the rights for families and gender equality, and collectively continue to adapt our Constitution to a modern Europe in a modern European Union. Constitutional change sends a powerful message of acceptance, equality and inclusion. This is the type of Member State and EU change we need to see progress in the future of all and any LGBTI strategies. I welcome this review. I’m just always disappointed – and I’m going to use my last few seconds here – to say that at 8 o’clock at night yet again on a Wednesday of plenary, we have about less than 30 colleagues, led by Commissioner Dalli, in probably one of the most politically incised conversations we have in our time. LGBTQ+ communities, minority groups, people who are seen as ‘other’ will be used as a political ping pong game. And it’s up to us 30 and hopefully many more allies to end this ridicule and injustice for all.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Isabel Santos
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: PT

Numa Europa que acaba de viver um dos anos mais violentos desde que há registos entre as populações LGBT, assistimos a ataques contínuos à liberdade dos nossos concidadãos, impulsionados por uma direita extremista que tem feito do ódio uma arma de arremesso.  Embora a UE tenha dado ontem um passo significativo no sentido da criminalização da mutilação genital feminina, falta-nos ainda percorrer um longo caminho. Práticas que a todos nos envergonham, como as terapias de conversão ou a esterilização forçada, continuam inexplicavelmente a ter lugar em vários Estados-Membros. É tempo de pôr termo a esta indignidade.  A ambição do relatório que hoje aqui discutimos reflete bem a nossa determinação, lançando as bases e estabelecendo os compromissos daquilo que esperamos ver na Estratégia LGBT 2025-2030: uma Europa diversa, tolerante, inclusiva e justa, onde a dignidade e a segurança das pessoas LGBT são as de todos nós.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Moritz Körner
Political group: Renew
Country: Poland
Language: DE

In Europa ist das zum Glück nicht vorstellbar. Europäische Werte sind Toleranz und Vielfalt. In Europa muss es egal sein, wen man liebt. Aber auch wir sehen, dass unsere Werte, unsere europäischen Werte, angegriffen werden. Die liberale Demokratie ist von innen und von außen, auch von Russland, bedroht, und wir sehen, dass gleichzeitig als Erstes auf Minderheiten gezielt wird. Dem müssen wir uns entgegenstellen. Auch deshalb ist die LGBTIQ-Strategie der Europäischen Kommission ein wichtiger Schritt und der Bericht, in dem wir den Fortschritt festhalten, gemeinsam, ein guter Bericht; ich danke dem Berichterstatter.  Ich habe als liberaler Verhandlungsführer versucht, mitzuhelfen, dass wir tatsächlich mehr tun. Denn solange queere Jugendliche immer noch eine höhere Selbstmordrate haben, haben wir noch nicht genug getan. Solange es noch Konversionstherapien in Europa gibt, haben wir noch nicht genug getan. Deswegen unterstützen wir in diesem Bericht die Europäische Bürgerinitiative zum Verbot von Konversionstherapien. Hier müssen wir noch mehr tun zum Schutz unserer Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Die Rechten versuchen, sich mit ihren Änderungsanträgen – mit ihren islamophoben Änderungsanträgen – jetzt als besonders queerfreundlich darzustellen. Wenn sie aber gleichzeitig die Rechte von LGBTIQ, von Regenbogenfamilien infrage stellen mit ihren Anträgen, dann zeigen sie eigentlich nur ihre hässliche Fratze. Hören Sie auf damit! Helfen Sie uns, gemeinsam für Toleranz und Demokratie in Europa zu streiten!
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Diana Riba i Giner
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: France
Language: ES

Según el informe del estado del odio de 2023, se calcula que en España alrededor de 280 000 personas han sufrido agresiones por su orientación o identidad sexual en algún momento en los últimos cinco años. Sin embargo, hay un dato dentro que es muy importante y alarmante: el 60 % de ellos asegura haber sufrido acoso en la escuela.  La Estrategia de la Unión para la Igualdad de las Personas LGBTIQ 2020-2025, cuya implementación estamos analizando, es una muy buena declaración de intenciones, pero necesitamos más. Necesitamos leyes europeas que obliguen a los Estados a tomar medidas efectivas para luchar contra la discriminación y blinden y protejan los derechos humanos de las personas LGTBIQ+.  Dar los derechos conquistados por descontado es un error. Pero óiganme bien, señores de la derecha y la extrema derecha: pensar que no los defenderemos con uñas y dientes, también.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Beata Kempa
Political group: ECR
Country: Czechia
Language: PL

Żeby było jasne: jestem przeciwna dyskryminacji kogokolwiek ze względu na wiarę, ze względu na orientację, ze względu na jakiekolwiek inne przyczyny. To jest niedopuszczalne – i to jest jasne i oczywiste. Ale w tym sprawozdaniu, jeżeli mamy zawierać takie sformułowania prawne, które tak naprawdę dotyczą polityki i ustawodawstwa, które już jest ustawodawstwem kraju członkowskiego, jest wyłączną kompetencją kraju członkowskiego, to w tym przypadku naruszamy, jako Unia Europejska, właśnie tymi działaniami, te kompetencje krajowe w obszarach chociażby zdrowia i prawa rodzinnego.  Po drugie, np. pojęcie  Kończę, Pani Przewodnicząca. Unia Europejska powstała na wartościach chrześcijańskich i godność, poszanowanie osoby ludzkiej, to jest ten fundament i tego się trzymajmy. Mamy to w traktatach.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Danilo Oscar Lancini
Political group: ID
Country: Poland
Language: IT

In nome del politicamente corretto, la televisione, l'educazione e addirittura i film traboccano di esempi LGBT. Imporre a forza questi modelli nella vita quotidiana è malsano e soprattutto non è corretto. Negli asili e nelle scuole dilaga l'imposizione dell'ideologia  Ha ragione Vittorio Feltri: non si possono più usare certe espressioni della lingua italiana, perché se no si rischia la galera. Questo vuol dire tutelare la libertà? Io non posso usare certi termini, mentre voi dovete dirmi come parlare? Basta imporre agli Stati membri di riconoscere l'omogenitorialità. Basta imporre la libertà di espressione in nome del politicamente corretto. Basta corsi obbligatori LGBT per tutti. Voi vedete la famiglia tradizionale come un ostacolo. La famiglia vera è composta da padre e madre, è sana, è quella che fa bambini e fa andare avanti il mondo. Voi proponete una porcheria che non ha futuro e porterà il mondo all'estinzione. Già l'anno scorso, a maggio, avete lordato queste aule con una mostra blasfema fatta dall'ultimo dei pervertiti. E, concludo, siamo stufi di subire per legge modelli e costumi che non riflettono la realtà. Vogliamo vivere senza essere indottrinati. Prevarrà il buon senso, non le vostre strategie.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Malin Björk
Political group: The Left
Country: Czechia
Language: EN

And we have come a long way. We have an LGBTIQ strategy. We have an Equality Commissioner. We have funding. We have several pan-European organisations defending the rights of our community. I can see that we are moving forward. I can feel it in my own life – how it has changed over time. Living between Sweden, Belgium and France, it has become easier, better. But we still have so much to do. The situation in the European Union, in some of the Member States, is terrible. We see how the national conservatives are attacking our siblings. We see how they are subject to hate crimes and hate speech, scapegoating, discrimination. We will not have it. We need to step up against hate speech and hate crime. We need to address specific discrimination of lesbians, of trans people, and we need to make sure that there is equality in health and in employment. We need equality for our families. We need equality for queer kids – every kid should be happy and proud. Nothing less is good enough. So let’s step up the political action. Let’s take a new strategy that is even more ambitious, that has more resources and even more political power.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Mario Furore
Political group: NI
Country: Spain
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, ieri la Corte d'Appello di Milano ha annullato la trascrizione dei riconoscimenti dei figli di tre coppie di donne perché in Italia non c'è una legge che lo prevede. Questa si chiama discriminazione e ha conseguenze drammatiche sulla vita delle famiglie, delle persone e dei bambini. Il divieto di discriminazione è un principio sancito nei trattati fondativi dell'Unione europea e quindi dobbiamo impegnarci di più per difendere queste vittime. Per esempio, approviamo subito la direttiva orizzontale antidiscriminazione che è bloccata in Consiglio dal 2008, quindi da ben quattordici anni. E poi dobbiamo approvare il certificato di genitorialità, che garantisce stessi diritti ai genitori, a prescindere dalle loro preferenze sessuali. È arrivato il momento di fare sul serio, di garantire l'uguaglianza per le persone LGBTQ+. Invito dunque la Commissione a fare la propria parte, perché dobbiamo invertire la rotta rispetto a quello che sta avvenendo in Italia e nell'Unione europea. Personalmente, dico no a un'Europa di cittadini di serie A e di serie B.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Sirpa Pietikäinen
Political group: PPE
Country: Italy
Language: EN

Madam President, I could actually start with the same words as I did with the hate speech. The hate against the Muslim and Jewish minorities. The targets for the next UN Women Conference here, too. So, it is the bigger issue with the totalitarianism and negative developments in our societies in the EU that I think that we should tackle really seriously. And then what are the tools? Of course, the tools are very much in all the groups the same. It is zero tolerance for any kind of hate speech, legally binding rules – both in digital media and in real life – for this boiling effect of insulting people because of their backgrounds. We need to back up the people, the diversity and stop the hate speech as long as we can. The next steps are two things. First of all – I am campaigning and very great supporter – we really would need to ban conversion therapies in Europe. They are against human rights, they are against dignity and they are against everything that we know about medicine and the good physical care of people. We would need to have better compulsory education about the issue and we would need to have special social and medical streams and services for LGBTIQ people. They are getting older, they need their own elderly people’s care, their own medical care centres and issues like that.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Cyrus Engerer
Political group: S-D
Country: Romania
Language: EN

Madam President, this legislature, our Europe, stood for equality. I must thank you, dear Commissioner, dear Helena, for the work and your dedication to make sure that we move strongly towards equality, even when having to swim against the tide in certain quarters. I believe it is essential that in the next mandate, in the next Commission, we will once again have a progressive Commissioner with this portfolio of equality in order to make sure that we keep on moving forward. Let me speak on one particular part of this strategy. It was already mentioned before: conversion practices. I thank the Commission for having the citizens’ initiative approved, and I hope that in the next months we will have much more than 1 million people signing the citizens’ initiative in order to stop this abominable way of manipulating children’s minds, people’s minds, in order to make them change whoever they were born into. This is an abomination and it must be stopped all across the European Union! We did this in Malta – we were the first country to do so – and it must be stopped in all the countries of the European Union. Because it is unacceptable to lead young people to suicide, simply because some people from the far right and the anti-gender movement do not acknowledge who they are! This is unacceptable and this House will always stand with all young people, all across the European Union.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Pierre Karleskind
Political group: Renew
Country: Ireland
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, Madame la Commissaire, depuis cinq ans, il s’en est passé, quand même, des choses! Nous avons fait reculer avec vous les zones sans LGBT en suspendant les fonds européens pour les collectivités polonaises. Ici, chers collègues, nous avons déclaré l’Union européenne comme une zone de liberté pour les personnes LGBT. Vous avez – nous vous avons soutenus – porté la Hongrie devant la Cour pour sa loi visant à combattre la supposée «propagande LGBT». Nous avons soutenu ici les familles homoparentales grâce à vous, également, grâce au texte que vous avez déposé. Nous avons voté pour la dépénalisation universelle de l’homosexualité. Nous? Pas tout le monde… Pas tout le monde, étant donné que nous avons dû combattre l’extrême droite et, parfois, malheureusement, la droite, quand elle s’acoquine avec cette extrême droite sur le sujet. Je pense par exemple à des collègues comme Nadine Morano ou Brice Hortefeux, des élus français, qui ont voté contre cette résolution, contre la dépénalisation de l’homosexualité. Quand nous constatons que 13 personnes ont été condamnées à mort au Yémen, que penser de cela? Évidemment, je pense aussi à Jordan Bardella, qui s’est opposé au fait d’ajouter les crimes homophobes à la liste des crimes de haine dans l’Union européenne. Eh bien, chers collègues, soyons fiers de ce que nous avons fait. Mais, surtout, soyons conscients que le combat continue et que nous avons encore bien des actions à mener.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Kim Van Sparrentak
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Denmark
Language: EN

Madam President, in 2020, 23 years after the founding of our Parliament’s LGBTI intergroup, the European Commission published their very first LGBTIQ equality strategy. And it is truly a victory for our community to see this allyship from the Commission. And some very good first steps were taken. But I’m asking you now, please continue having our backs. Despite the growing backlash, despite the fact that my community is scapegoated for political gains and despite the increased hate against us, please continue to work with a new commissioner responsible for equality and a new strategy. Because we are still far away from a Europe where we are truly equal, where we are truly safe. We deserve to be treated equally. And for this we need the horizontal anti-discrimination directive to be unblocked. We want to be able to move throughout the Union without fear of losing our legal rights as partners or as parents. Our intersex siblings need to be protected with a ban on genital mutilation. Our trans siblings deserve to have a passport that reflects who they are without going through long and medicalised degrading processes. And we want a ban on the torturous practice of conversion therapy. In other words, we would like to have our basic human rights to be respected in the EU. So, I count on you to continue fighting together with us towards that.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Emmanouil Fragkos
Political group: ECR
Country: Denmark
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, από καταβολής του κόσμου και ανά τους αιώνες, η απόκτηση οικογένειας απαιτεί έναν άνδρα και μια γυναίκα. Η βιολογική σύνδεση εμβρύου και μητέρας είναι βαθιά, πολυεπίπεδη και αναντικατάστατη. Η μητέρα αποτελεί για εμάς ένα ιερό πρόσωπο. Στην Ορθοδοξία μας, η σημασία της Παναγίας αντανακλά τη σημασία της μητέρας στη ζωή μας. Είναι θλιβερό να μιλάμε για αλλαγή προτύπων. Είναι προφανές ότι θα οδηγήσει όλο και περισσότερα παιδιά να μεγαλώνουν χωρίς μητέρα. Είναι σαφές ότι το σχεδιαζόμενο πλήγμα στην οικογένεια ως θεμελιώδη πυρήνα της κοινωνίας κρύβει και άλλα πράγματα από πίσω. Εμείς επιμένουμε μέχρι τέλους. Τα παιδιά χρειάζονται μητέρα και πατέρα. Η κανονική οικογένεια είναι αναντικατάστατη. Λέμε ένα στιβαρό ΟΧΙ στην απόκτηση παιδιών από ομόφυλα ζευγάρια. Υιοθεσία μόνο από κανονικές οικογένειες. Πρέπει να σταματήσει η Ευρωβουλή να παράγει περιττές εκθέσεις. Δεν υπάρχει ευρωπαϊκή αρμοδιότητα στα θέματα οικογενειακού δικαίου. Ας δούμε όλοι το άρθρο 81 της Συνθήκης της Λισαβόνας και ας τελειώσει εδώ αυτό το αστείο.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Konstantinos Arvanitis
Political group: The Left
Country: Greece
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, κύριε Επίτροπε, José, ευχαριστούμε πάρα πολύ για την πολύ ωραία δουλειά και όλους εσάς, διότι από την Τεχεράνη ας έρθουμε πάλι εδώ στην Ευρώπη, σιγά σιγά. Η αναγνώριση των ίσων δικαιωμάτων και η καταπολέμηση των διακρίσεων δεν αποτελεί κατά τη γνώμη μας καινοτομία. Είναι απλώς το αυτονόητο ενωσιακό διεθνές κεκτημένο. Δεν είναι, λοιπόν, ευτυχής συγκυρία να κυνηγάμε το αυτονόητο εν έτει 2024. Γιατί αυτό σημαίνει ότι σε αδρές γραμμές οι πολιτείες και οι κοινωνίες αντιμετωπίζουν τα ΛΟΑΤΚΙ άτομα με τρόπο βαθιά προβληματικό. Και καμιά ασθμαίνουσα μικροσυμφόρηση δεν πρέπει να την χειροκροτούμε ως ρηξικέλευθη πρόοδο, γιατί έτσι συμβιβαζόμαστε στα ελάχιστα και αυτό δεν αξίζει ούτε στις Ευρωπαίες ούτε στους Ευρωπαίους. Είναι πολύ σημαντικό, όμως, να λέμε τα πράγματα με το όνομά τους, όπως λέμε στην Ελλάδα. Όσο υπάρχουν στο δημοκρατικό τόξο πολιτικοί παράγοντες και παρατάξεις που σε κάθε ευκαιρία κλείνουν το μάτι στην ακροδεξιά, που την ακούσαμε και εδώ, τόσο στην κοινωνικοπολιτική πράξη θα ανακινείται το δηλητήριο του μίσους και της διάκρισης και θα κανονικοποιείται ο ρατσισμός, η περιθωριοποίηση, δηλαδή - να πούμε τα πράγματα με το όνομά τους - ο φασισμός, επειδή είναι εντελώς διαφορετικό ζήτημα η τυπική ισότητα βάσει του νόμου σε σχέση με την ουσιαστική ισότητα που επιτυγχάνεται μέσα από συγκεκριμένες σταθερές, εφαρμόσιμες και αξιολογημένες πολιτικές. Καλώ να επανεξετάσουν τη θέση τους οι ομάδες που επεδίωξαν να αφαιρεθεί η αναφορά στις υγειονομικές προεκτάσεις των διακρίσεων σε βάρος των ΛΟΑΤΚΙ ατόμων και επίσης στην Ένωση να νομοθετήσει άμεσα και οριζόντια για τα ζητήματα των επεμβάσεων επαναπροσδιορισμού.
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Antoni Comín i Oliveres
Political group: NI
Country: Romania
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, se l'Unione non è una comunità che protegge le libertà dei suoi cittadini, non è niente. E una di queste libertà, una delle più preziose, è la libertà di amare chi vogliamo. Chi potrebbe essere contrario? Per quale ragione? La strategia LGBTQ+ della Commissione ha rappresentato un importante passo avanti, ma può essere migliorata. Per esempio, per quanto riguarda il quarto pilastro, che guida la richiesta di uguaglianza LGBTQ+ in tutto il mondo, non siamo riusciti a garantire la non discriminazione basata sull'orientamento sessuale nei paesi firmatari dell'accordo di Samoa con gli Stati dell'Africa, dei Caraibi e del Pacifico. Ciononostante, dobbiamo sostenere queste comunità in quei paesi, come per esempio l'Uganda, dove sono gravemente minacciate. Dobbiamo sostenere i difensori dei diritti umani che si mettono a rischio sul campo per difendere i diritti delle persone LGBTQ+. Ma la strategia viene combattuta troppe volte anche dall'interno dell'Unione europea, dall'estrema destra. Proprio ieri, ad esempio, lo ha fatto il vicepresidente del governo valenciano in Spagna. È necessario intervenire a livello giuridico, ma anche andare alle radici delle cause della
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Ewa Kopacz
Country: Bulgaria
Language: PL

Powracamy do debaty na temat sprawozdania sporządzonego przez José Gusmão w imieniu Komisji Wolności Obywatelskich, Sprawiedliwości i Spraw Wewnętrznych w sprawie realizacji unijnej strategii na rzecz równości osób LGBTIQ na lata 2020–2025 (
Debate: Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy -
Date: WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024
Speaker: Rosa Estaràs Ferragut
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, lo dijo la presidenta Ursula von der Leyen. Trabajaremos todos juntos para conseguir una Unión de la Igualdad.  La Estrategia Europea para las Personas LGTBIQ, presentada hace poco por la Comisión, ha sido determinante. Determinante para poder ser esa Unión de la Igualdad. Todas las personas LGTBIQ deben sentirse seguras y disfrutar de los mismos derechos y las mismas oportunidades, así como participar en igualdad de condiciones. Con esta Estrategia, como he dicho, se dio un paso adelante.  Hoy hemos de seguir luchando para que no estén discriminadas. Para eso es muy importante una educación en igualdad. El estigma, la violencia y la discriminación contra este colectivo limitan, sin ninguna duda, su participación y atentan contra los derechos humanos. También es muy importante garantizar la seguridad de las personas LGTBIQ, sobre todo por delitos de violencia o de odio. Decirles también que estoy absolutamente en contra de las terapias de conversión. Hay que prohibirlas en toda la Unión Europea. Y hay que crear sociedades inclusivas para las personas LGTBIQ. Proteger a todas las familias arcoíris que estén en situaciones transfronterizas. Normalmente tienen dificultades para acceder al empleo y a la vivienda, y también corren el riesgo de sufrir violencia, exclusión y pobreza.  Por lo tanto, la Unión Europea, comisaria, tiene que liderar el llamamiento a favor de la igualdad de este colectivo porque es tanto como liderar la defensa de los derechos fundamentales. La Unión Europea tiene que ser un ejemplo y asumir esa posición de liderazgo.