The report builds on ten previous requests by the Parliament in the last three years to roll out an EU equality roadmap for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. Similar EU equality strategies already exist in the field of Roma integration, discrimination on the basis of disability, and gender equality.
The report respects the principle of subsidiarity but calls on the European Commission to make proposals to end discrimination in employment, education, health and access to goods and services; in the field of citizenship, families and free movement; freedom of assembly and expression; hate speech and hate crime; asylum and migration; and foreign affairs.