Posted on 05/23/2026 8:03:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.
On April 21, just nine days after Viktor Orban’s electoral defeat in the Hungarian parliamentary elections, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its ruling in Commission v. Hungary, decreeing that Hungary’s 2021 Child Protection Law prohibiting the exposure of minors to LGBT propaganda is in violation of EU law and core values. Sixteen member states joined the EU Parliament in the case against Hungary, and so the outcome was, in many ways, foreordained. Mark Rutte—then prime minister of the Netherlands, now secretary general of NATO—famously promised to bring Hungary “to its knees.”
News of the ruling reached Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel (who served as prime minister from 2013 to 2023) as he spoke to a meeting of foreign ministers. “It’s not the fact that I’m gay that I just fight for gay rights, but it’s the fact that I fight for minorities and it’s always easier to fight against the smallest group in some countries,” he gloated unconvincingly to Euronews, noting that he’d confronted Orbán about the law. “To do politics by blaming someone reminds me seriously of how it starts with Jewish people and then with gypsies and etc.” The allusion to the Holocaust was insidious and deliberate.
“There is now no excuse for the Commission not to require Hungary to quickly withdraw the law,” stated Katrin Hugendubel of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association Europe on the day of the ruling. “Hungary cannot enter a post-Orbán era without repealing [anti-LGBTQ+] legislation, including the Pride ban. If [incoming prime minister] Péter Magyar truly aims to be pro-EU, he must place this at the top of his agenda for his first 100 days in office, as an essential part of his EU-facing reforms.”
John Morijn, professor of law and politics at the University of Groningen, hailed the ruling as historic and far-reaching as a precedent for LGBT rights overriding the sovereignty of member states, telling the BBC: “You cannot equate what is totally natural—that 10% of the population loves the same sex—with egregious crime.” European Commission spokeswoman Paula Pinho was positively imperious. “It’s up to the… Hungarian government to abide by the ruling and once that is done the issue is solved,” she said.
Before leaving office, Orbán stated in a letter that Hungary would not comply with the order from Brussels, citing political, legal, and constitutional concerns. The ball is now in Péter Magyar’s court. Brussels and the LGBT activists they speak for have made their demands clear.
Both the timing and the tactic of ruling are obvious. If Magyar wishes to make nice with the EU and gain access to billions in frozen funds as he promised during the campaign—a declaration that Hungary “chooses Europe” was part of Tisza’s 2026 election program—he will have to genuflect to the LGBT flag to do so. He will, as Rutte demanded, have to bow the knee. For his part, Magyar has been slippery about how he will deal with EU demands to get in line with the EU-enforced sexual revolution. During his April 12 victory speech, Magyar called Hungary a country “where no one is stigmatized for … loving differently than the majority” but has been vague when it comes to policy.
The CJEU’s ruling has been universally celebrated across the European establishment, but the precedent is worth taking a closer look at. The CJEU, presumably sensitive to backlash from socially conservative countries, was careful not to openly articulate the implication of their decision: that children do have a right to LGBT content, or, conversely, that LGBT activists have a right to expose children to ideological content unimpeded by the law. The ruling even gave a perfunctory nod to the idea of parental rights, conceding that laws oriented towards the “best interests of the child” can justify restrictions.
But the ruling emphasizes the divide between those who believe that the public promotion and protection of the natural family and protection from LGBT ideology are in “the best interests of the child” and those who believe, for example, that sex changes for gender-dysphoric children are in “the best interests of the child.” Throughout its ruling, the CEJU promiscuously used phrases such as “sex assigned at birth,” indicating its complete acceptance of the premises of transgender ideology and emphasizing its total lack of neutrality. The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.
As I noted in at europeanconservative.com last year, public Pride parades and other LGBT events routinely expose children to adult nudity, displays of bizarre and grotesque sexual fetishism, simulated sex acts, and pornographic displays. This is not a matter of isolated incidents but recognized and celebrated standard fare—in 2021, Dutch photographer Jan van Breda won a €2,500 prize for snapping, as a local newspaper put it, “the most iconic, meaningful and aesthetic” picture from 25 years of Pride in Amsterdam, featuring a small child playing on a swing while men in latex bondage gear mingled nearby. This is what the CEJU is defending—and what Rutte was defending.
There is also the fact that multiple major studies—starting with Lisa Littman’s 2018 paper—revealed that trans identification among minors is often a “peer social contagion.” That is, it spreads through peer groups and is frequently driven by content consumed online. This thesis has been confirmed by other studies and has led to a reevaluation of transgender treatments for minors in many countries. Considering that exposure to LGBT content has measurably resulted in children identifying as transgender—and, indeed, a wide range of other new gender identities and sexual orientations—and that transgender treatments often result in irreversible damage, it is clear that protecting minors from such content is, in fact, in “the best interests of the child.”
CEJU’s ruling emphasizes the ‘values’ of the New Europe. Just fifty years ago, no civilized country would have accepted that children had a human right to consume LGBT content, or that LGBT activists had a human right to expose themselves in public or act out weird sexual fetishes in the streets. The EU despises leaders who will not accept these new ‘values’ because they are, fundamentally, more European than the new ruling class—because they cling to a continuity with the Christian civilization that once defined the continent, rather than the new Europe that has arisen out of the sexual revolution.
When Mark Rutte declared that he would work to bring Hungary to its knees, it is because he wanted Hungary to join the countries that already knelt before the rainbow flag. We will soon discover what sort of stuff Péter Magyar is made of.
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The muslims will soon have a say in this.
Apropos given the theme.
All the former East Block nations should tell the communists in the EU to GFT and form their own union. The EU money isn’t worth the strangling cord around their necks and the destruction of their nations and cultures.
I hope they can decide the core values for human prosperity are more important than any monetary benefits the EU can offer. I could imagine Poland could come to the same conclusion.
There is an Excel file I update periodically, which computes external debt divided by GDP. The most recent figures are for 2024. The EU was at 177% and the eighteen 3rd world countries I selected were at 44%, so I don't think EU is pillar of stability. At that time the US was at 93%.
Resist and defeat queer dictatorship!!!!
Magyar has already caved to the EU regarding Israel and the ICC. Now we will see if he will give in to the EU LGBTQ+++ agenda as well.
In contrast to Mark Rutte I don’t think the majority of the Hungarians would approve.
And just as you indicated the big rift in the EU ideology is so obvious. You cannot be both homophilic and Shariaphilic at the same time. Most sane persons understand that, but then again is there anything indicating that the leading EU politicians are sane?
You are quite right and the figures have not improved since 2024. By pure coincidence this short piece was published today in the Swedish business daily DI (my translation):
“IMF warns of run-away EU debts – proposes joint borrowing
The EU must launch reforms and consider joint borrowing to manage the member states’ gigantic costs related to defense, energy, and pensions. In a new report to the union’s finance ministers, the IMF gives a series of sharp calls to curb the soaring debt in several EU countries.”
The EU has one severe outlier in Luxemburg at 2911.31% with a $100 billion plus GDP and a $2.9 trillion debt. Sometimes I should investigate that. Without Luxemburg the ratio is still about 165%.
21,090,375,787 €
The national GDP is 79,005,889,092 €
which gives a debt/gdp of 26.7%
According to the Maastricht treaty one of the criterion to is that the debt/gdp ratio must not be above 60% for any country in the Eurozone. Luxembourg is one of the very few countries who has been able to adhere to that criterion.
.................”Tribal politics (whether Muslim, Jew or Mormon) plays out differently.”
Very interesting. How about the Boston Irish Catholics? My grandmother worked for John Fitzgerald (”Honey Fitz”) when he ran for mayor of Boston. Successful at that and became ffather and grandfather of JFK. RFK is now in government at federal level.
Having grown up with a Boston Irish Catholic grandmother and mother, I know their first political concerns were about religion. Any Catholic candidate for anything should win his election no matter how much of a schmuck he was.
List of countries by external debt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
Yes, but that is gross external debt and not net* external debt. I think the extremely large external debt is due to the fact that Luxembourg basically is a banking system within national borders.
*From the Wiki page: For net international debt by country (external debt owing to other countries minus external debt of other countries held), see Net international investment position.
And also: Note that while a country may have a relatively large external debt (either in absolute or per capita terms) it could actually be a “net international creditor” if its external debt is less than the total of external debt of other countries held by it.
Thanks for the Net international investment position table. Now I have a way to understand Luxembourg strange numbers.
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