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Hungary: Orban-era LGBTQ rules breach EU laws, ECJ finds

dw.com·Mark Hallam·about 1 month ago
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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday ruled that Hungarian LGBTQ+ laws introduced in 2021 violated EU laws and values on multiple levels.  The contentious reforms  — dubbed "the amending law" in Hungary  and introduced under outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party — sought to limit children's access to information about transgender and homosexual issues and to ease public access to the criminal records of sex offenders, among other changes. Tuesday's ECJ judgment will put pressure on Hungary's incoming government led by Peter Magyar , who won a landslide in elections against longstanding PM Orban earlier this month , to alter or abolish the laws "without delay" or face sanctions from Brussels.  Which laws did the ECJ deem to be broken?  The court sided with all the complaints the European Commission had lodged against the law.…

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