Parliament has blocked legislation banning discrimination at work that was condition of travel agreement set by European UnionUkraine’s parliament has scuppered the country’s chances of visa-free travel to most EU nations by blocking legislation that would have banned discrimination against homosexual people in the workplace.
The pro-EU leadership that replaced the Moscow-backed president final year has made it a priority to join the Schengen zone – a club of EU countries that allows visa and passport-free travel. But the European Union said in 2010 that Ukrainians being allowed free travel depended in fraction on Kiev adding a clause to its Soviet-era labour code that would ban all forms of discrimination against homosexual people.
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Source: theguardian.com