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Warsaw Pride 2009: equal treatment of gay people is a "fundamental" EU right (Photo: apeirophilia)

Warsaw rally highlights east-west divide on gay rights

Europride 2010 organisers expect up to 40,000 people to turn up in Warsaw on Saturday (17 July) in an event highlighting the east-west divide on gay rights in the EU and in the European Parliament.

Head organiser Tomasz Baczkowski told EUobserver that Polish authorities have lent support to the march in order to avoid a "scandal," despite strongly-conservative feeling in the ruling Civic Platform party. \n \n"We have good co-operation with the police and we have guarantees that our para...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

Warsaw Pride 2009: equal treatment of gay people is a "fundamental" EU right (Photo: apeirophilia)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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