On Tuesday 22 June, the Ministers for European Affairs held hearings with Hungary and Poland under the ‘Article 7’ procedure launched by the European Parliament in 2018 and by the Commission in 2017, respectively. This comes in a tense context, after the recent Hungarian law banning the “promotion of gender identity deviation, sex change, and homosexuality” among minors.
Thirteen countries expressed their concerns about the situation of gay rights in Hungary. Also on Poland, they...