{"id":159817,"date":"2025-06-05T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159817\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T09:10:12","slug":"hungarys-anti-lgbtq-rules-breach-eu-law-top-court-adviser-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159817\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary\u2019s anti-LGBTQ+ rules breach EU law, top court adviser says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opinion gives the European Commission clout in its clash with Budapest over fundamental rights, which most recently escalated after Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/orban-tries-to-ban-pride-hungary-appease-extremists-rivals-surge-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned Pride events<\/a> in mid-March and authorized police to use biometric cameras to identify organizers and attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate-general opinions are nonbinding. However, they do often signal where the court will land in its final ruling, which usually comes out within months following the opinion.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_21_3668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened<\/a> an infringement procedure in July 2021 after Hungary adopted the law, which seeks to bar children from seeing LGBTQ+ content across television programs and advertisements, books, sex education classes and beyond. Same-sex couples and transgender people are banned from daytime TV and ads, while queer-themed books must be sealed and can\u2019t be sold near schools and churches.<\/p>\n<p>Budapest invoked the EU&#8217;s audiovisual media rulebook and its provisions on protecting minors from harmful content as a legal basis to limit the visibility of LGBTQ+ communities on television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hungarian bill is a shame,&#8221; Commission President Ursula von der Leyen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-legal-steps-hungarys-anti-lgbtq-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in 2021, vowing to use &#8220;all the powers of the Commission to ensure that the rights of all EU citizens are guaranteed, whoever you are and wherever you live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December 2022, the EU executive <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/el\/ip_22_2689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took the case<\/a> to court and got the backing of 15 member countries and the European Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opinion gives the European Commission clout in its clash with Budapest over fundamental rights, which most recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,37935,3444,30,2266,2000,299,5187,28980,2190,5763,2452,391,5111,48,1220,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-159817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-audiovisual","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-facial-recognition","17":"tag-hungary","18":"tag-lgbtq","19":"tag-media","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-parliament","22":"tag-rights","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114629982495946532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817","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=159817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}