The European Union’s highest court has ruled that Hungary’s 2021 law restricting the promotion of LGBTQ themes to minors breaches the founding values of the bloc, in a judgment likely to deepen the already bitter struggle between Brussels and Budapest over sovereignty, culture and the limits of liberal jurisprudence. The Court of Justice of the European Union delivered the ruling on April 21, holding that key parts of the Hungarian law were incompatible with Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union.
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EU says LGBT child-protection law breaches bloc’s values
A landmark ruling against Hungary’s 2021 child-protection law has sharpened the dispute between Brussels and Budapest over who defines Europe’s moral and legal limits
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