\u201cWe are highly alarmed by these developments,\u201d reads the letter, signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden.<\/p>\n
France and Germany have also signed on, an EU diplomat told POLITICO.<\/p>\n
A series of Hungarian laws<\/a> which threaten fines against organizers of and participants in LGBTQ+ events, under the guise of child protection, \u201crun contrary to the fundamental values to human dignity, freedom, equality and respect for human rights as laid down in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n The text doesn\u2019t spell out which measures Brussels should take. The obvious option, though, would be to impose \u201cinterim measures\u201d against Hungary, which are tantamount to EU legal injunctions against a government to prevent harm, in this case by ordering Budapest to allow the Pride celebration.<\/p>\n Brussels, which is withholding \u20ac18 billion in EU funds<\/a> from Hungary over rule-of-law violations, has so far balked at further coercive action. Equality Commissioner Hadja Lahbib pushed back on the idea<\/a> of imposing interim measures during a meeting last week, according to a participant. A failure to implement the measures could then trigger penalties.<\/p>\n Lahbib told the lawmakers she lacked support from her boss, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for further action. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are highly alarmed by these developments,\u201d reads the letter, signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7907,1789,768,28,365,6561,7219,1112,2000,299,5187,1699,769,805,36,58868,4582,2190,58869,678,1113,1114,1215,5111,46,3046,48,6566,7338,811,2558,13492,812,3053,657,1220,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-133847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-austria","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-buildings","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-enlargement","14":"tag-equality","15":"tag-estonia","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-finland","21":"tag-foreign-policy","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-hadja-lahbib","24":"tag-human-rights","25":"tag-hungary","26":"tag-interim-measures","27":"tag-ireland","28":"tag-latvia","29":"tag-lithuania","30":"tag-luxembourg","31":"tag-parliament","32":"tag-policy","33":"tag-portugal","34":"tag-rights","35":"tag-robert-fico","36":"tag-rule-of-law","37":"tag-security","38":"tag-slovakia","39":"tag-slovenia","40":"tag-sweden","41":"tag-the-netherlands","42":"tag-ukraine","43":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","44":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}