EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Rule of law/fundamental rights

MEPs speak out against Hungary’s law stigmatising LGBTI people and urge European Council to stay engaged

Strasbourg/Brussels, 07/07/2021 (Agence Europe)

The Hungarian law aimed at banning all advertising, editorial and educational content depicting homosexuality to children under 18 (see EUROPE B12747A7) came into force on Wednesday 7 July. The European Parliament’s four-hour debate that morning - on the conclusions of the last European Council (see EUROPE B12748A1) and then on the Rule of law in Poland and Hungary - focused on this topic.

“No item on the agenda [of the last European Council] was as important”, “LGBTI rights are not...