Victor Orban’s LGBTQ law is ‘idiotic’, Belgian leader says as Europe rebukes Hungary

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a business conference in Budapest, Hungary, in this June 9 2021 file photo. Picture: REUTERS/BERNADETT SZABO

“Hate, intolerance and discrimination have no place in our union,” leaders tweeted in a co-ordinated move on Thursday, publishing a letter signed by government heads from 16 EU member states including Germany’s Angela Merkel, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Mario Draghi. “I will be intolerant with intolerance,” Bettel told journalists in Brussels. “This will be my fight today.” Luxembourg’s prime minister married his husband, Gauthier Destenay, in May 2015.“The Hungarian law is an idiotic law, which discriminates against people on the basis of who they want to be. Europe is a club with rules. You can’t say you want to be financed by Europe, but I’ll keep the rules at arm’s length,” he told reporters on Thursday. “This goes too far.

Orban said on his arrival at the summit that he would tell fellow leaders about the law: “Please read it.” He added: “I am a fighter for their rights, I am a freedom fighter in the Communist regime, homosexuality was punished and I fought for their freedom and their right, so I am defending the rights of homosexual guys but this law is not about this, it is about the rights of the kids and the parents.

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