Posted on 07/16/2022 6:52:36 PM PDT by Salman
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive intensified its legal standoff with Hungary on Friday by taking the country to the EU’s highest court over a restrictive law on LGBT issues and media freedom.
The EU had already tried for a year to make Hungary change a law that bans content portraying or promoting homosexuality. The European Commission said it “discriminates against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.”
“The Commission considers that the law violates the internal market rules, the fundamental rights of individuals (in particular LGBTIQ people) as well as — with regard to those fundamental rights — the EU values,” the statement said.
It was the latest episode in a long political battle in which Brussels perceives Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as deliberately stepping away from the cornerstones of Western democracy while Hungary depicts the European Commission as overly meddling in internal politics and imposing moral standards it considers far too liberal.
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Such is the price of free trade and a common currency.
Eff the EU, Go Hungary!
The EU has always been evil. And it has always been about bringing on the New World Order.
Ukraine is in full compliance. Russia is not.
Is the EU providing Monkey Pox vaccines for attendees?
That made me laugh
Ukraine is in full compliance. Russia is not.
Ukraine doesn't recognize same-sex marriages either.
Well, but ... Ukraine to consider legalising same-sex marriage amid war.
Hurray for Hungary!
Yes; it does.
Now go F*** yourselves!
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