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There has been much controversy about the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon in Poland during last few days. And about the address given by President Kaczyński, the address concerning the whole situation. Well, beyond all doubt that was a very interesting address. Technically. Besides, there are some politicians who brought themselves into discredit, there are some new slogans and another statements, which will probably be remembered in rather, hm, satirical contexts. To be honest, I don’t have much interest in politics, I don’t watch our government’s activities to closely. Maybe that’s because its activities have a rather bad influence on my already strained heart. Therefore, I don’t dare to analyse anything, I don’t dare to engage in any polemical discussion, I won’t even make any brilliant comments. I’m simply not competent enough. And I’m not going to pretend that I am. But what I’m going to do is to write some kind of summary of the latest, so interesting after all, events of March ‘08.

First of all, I’ll bring back a few things, which are most important for the Polish sexual minorities:

The Treaty of Lisbon is so important for us, because it legitimizes the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which had been the subject of much controversy in Poland in September and October 2007. The document lists citizens’ political, social and economic rights, including the sexual minorities’ rights. On 4 October 2007 our government decided that the Polish citizens won’t be allowed to refer to the Charter before the European Court of Human Rights. In other words, the Charter has been rejected. And what was the main argument? That the Charter would pose a threat to the institution of family.

Then came the parliamentary election which was closely watched also by LGBT community, not only in Poland. The victory of Donald Tusk and his party Civic Platform gave hope to Polish lesbians and gays, hope for, at least slight, changes in political course. Changes promised by Donald Tusk. And he had promised to accept the Charter. But soon after the election, in his exposé, he said that he had changed his mind and would respect the decisions made by the former government.

On 13 December 2007 the Treaty of Lisbon, also known as the Reform Treaty (officially: Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community), has been signed. Donald Tusk held his decision and the restrictions for the Poles were upheld.

The signature of the Treaty has started the process of ratification. If all the ratification documents are provided, the Treaty will become effective on 1 January 2009. Five European countries (Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, Romania and France) and the European Parliament have ratified it so far.

source: Wikipedia

Because too long posts are rather tiring and I still have much to write in this topic, I will continue tomorrow :] Stay tuned!

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