{"id":482818,"date":"2025-10-08T11:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482818\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:29:14","slug":"eu-pledges-to-crack-down-on-conversion-therapy-lgbtq-hate-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/482818\/","title":{"rendered":"EU pledges to crack down on conversion therapy, LGBTQ+ hate \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lahbib on Wednesday presented the LGBTIQ+ Strategy for 2026-2030<\/a> to combat growing attacks<\/a> against members of the community. \u201cIt seems we are moving backwards,\u201d she said, adding that this is a \u201cworrying trend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Half of EU countries currently have a national strategy for LGBTQ+ equality, and eight countries (Belgium, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Malta, Portugal and Spain) have banned conversion therapy, with the Netherlands discussing following suit. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Supreme Court is considering overturning<\/a> Colorado\u2019s ban on the practice.<\/p>\n

As part of its new strategy, which is not legally binding, the Commission wants to focus on tackling hate speech against LGBTQ+ people, both online and offline, and will be coming up with a plan to combat cyberbullying. The Commission is also considering drawing up a law to harmonize the definition of online hate offenses.<\/p>\n

Several European countries have cracked down on the LGBTQ+<\/a> community.<\/p>\n

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico successfully pushed last month to enshrine into his country\u2019s constitution<\/a> that there are only two genders (male and female), and to ban surrogacy and adoption for same-sex couples.<\/p>\n

Hungary\u2019s leader, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, has been in a standoff<\/a> with Brussels over a series of anti-LGBTQ+ laws and his unsuccessful attempt to ban this year\u2019s Budapest Pride \u2014 an event that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community. The EU\u2019s top court is expected to rule soon on whether these actions violate EU law, but a recent legal opinion<\/a> suggests that the court is likely to side with Brussels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission will not hesitate to take further action,\u201d including going to court, to protect people\u2019s rights, Lahbib said, adding that there are 10 ongoing infringement procedures against Hungary for violating EU fundamental rights. The Commission has also frozen \u20ac18 billion in EU funding for Hungary as a result of these breaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to punish the citizens for the actions taken by their governments,\u201d Lahbib said, adding that in the next EU long-term budget, she proposed that frozen funds for rule of law violations be directly redistributed to civil society organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lahbib on Wednesday presented the LGBTIQ+ Strategy for 2026-2030 to combat growing attacks against members of the community.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1789,7156,1194,30,8612,2814,7219,2000,9898,299,5187,1699,36,1824,1450,58868,2190,5763,48,6566,7338,104,3053,49,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-482818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-breaches","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-cyprus","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-equality","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-eu-funding","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-france","21":"tag-germany","22":"tag-greece","23":"tag-hadja-lahbib","24":"tag-hungary","25":"tag-lgbtq","26":"tag-rights","27":"tag-robert-fico","28":"tag-rule-of-law","29":"tag-spain","30":"tag-the-netherlands","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115338317974989375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482818","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=482818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}