FILE PHOTO: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, leader of the ruling party Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attend the consecration of a statue in memory of Smolensk plane crash victims in Budapest, Hungary, April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/File Photo/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Lobbying by Poland and Hungary has led to the removal of the phrase "gender equality" from a draft declaration on advancing social cohesion that the EU is due to publish on Friday, according to diplomats and documents seen by Reuters.
Poland's nationalist ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and its eurosceptic ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, promote what they call traditional social values at home and have repeatedly clashed with their more liberal Western peers over the rights of women, gays and migrants.
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