{"id":139140,"date":"2025-04-17T09:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/meps-call-for-eu-court-to-suspend-hungarys-pride-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:15:31","slug":"meps-call-for-eu-court-to-suspend-hungarys-pride-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/meps-call-for-eu-court-to-suspend-hungarys-pride-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs call for EU court to suspend Hungary\u2019s Pride ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139140\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A delegation of EU lawmakers visiting Hungary has called on Europe\u2019s top court to suspend a new law banning Budapest Pride, as they criticised a \u201cvery hostile atmosphere\u201d for LGBTQ+ people in the country and urged a return to \u201creal democracy\u201d. Tineke Strik, a Dutch Green politician who led a cross-party group of MEPs to investigate democratic standards in Hungary, said developments were going \u201crapidly in the wrong direction\u201d. Concluding the three-day visit on Wednesday, Strik said: \u201cWe eagerly want this country to turn back into a real democracy, because we think that Hungarian citizens should enjoy the same rights and values as we all do into the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five MEPs arrived in Hungary on the day that lawmakers passed a constitutional amendment allowing the government to ban LGBTQ+ events. That change codified a law passed in March banning Pride marches and allowing authorities to use facial recognition technology to track attenders so they could be fined. It has been described by one rights group as a \u201cfull-frontal attack\u201d on LGBTQ+ people. Strik said: \u201cOrganisers and participants of the Budapest Pride risk facing criminal charges for marching peacefully in support of diversity, equality and freedom, as they have done for the last 29 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MEPs said they were calling on the European Commission \u2013 the guardian of EU law \u2013 to ask the European court of justice to suspend the law pending further legal action. In response to the constitutional changes, the European Commission said on Tuesday it would not hesitate to act if necessary. The Guardian has requested comment on the MEPs\u2019 request for suspension, known as an interim measure. Krzysztof \u015amiszek, of the Polish New Left, said the new law had created \u201ca very hostile atmosphere\u201d for LGBTQ+ Hungarians that had \u201calready led to rise of physical, violent attacks and other types of hate crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Micha\u0142 Wawrykiewicz, a centre-right Polish MEP who campaigned to preserve independent judiciary in his home country, said the group had observed an \u201cindisputable deterioration of the situation\u201d and \u201can open denial of the rule of law\u201d. He also said some officials had shown a \u201cvery aggressive approach toward us\u201d and \u201crude behaviour\u201d. Sophie Wilm\u00e8s, a former Belgian prime minister and a liberal MEP, said some authorities had displayed \u201cvery aggressive rhetoric\u201d towards the group. She voiced alarm about pressure on independent media. She said the Hungarian government\u2019s extensive control of the media landscape meant \u201csmear campaigns have become the new norm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Several government departments declined to meet the MEPs, without giving any reason, Strik said. Three nationalist and far-right European parliament groups declined to join the parliamentary visit: the European Conservatives and Reformists, Patriots for Europe and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group. The most pressing stories and debates for Europeans \u2013 from identity to economics to the environment<\/p>\n<p>The visit wrapped up soon after the US government announced it was lifting sanctions on a close aide to Hungary\u2019s prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, describing the punitive measures as \u201cinconsistent with US foreign policy interests\u201d. Antal Rog\u00e1n had been added to the US sanctions list in January, in the final days of Joe Biden\u2019s administration, for alleged corruption. The Hungarian government said at the time it intended to challenge this as soon as Donald Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n is one of Trump\u2019s biggest supporters, once saying he would open several bottles of champagne if Trump was re-elected. Hungary was the only EU member state to vote against the EU\u2019s retaliatory measures against Trump\u2019s tariffs, which were later suspended after a last-minute policy reversal by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In an awkward moment for the Orb\u00e1n government, the Trump administration released a report on foreign trade barriers raising concerns about corruption in Hungary\u2019s public procurement system. Hungary\u2019s foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, claimed in response that parts of the report had been \u201cdictated by\u201d the previous US ambassador to Budapest, David Pressman, who was a vocal critic of the government\u2019s democratic backsliding and foreign policy positions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/16\/meps-eu-court-hungary-pride-ban-lgbtq\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/meps-call-for-eu-court-to-suspend-hungarys-pride-ban\/\">MEPs call for EU court to suspend Hungary\u2019s Pride ban<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,18596,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-139140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-hungarys-pride-ban","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}