Brussels, Belgium: EU leaders holding a summit Thursday attacked the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban on a new law in his country prohibiting LGBTQ content in schools, whether homophobic and contrary to the values of The EU.
Orban has been practically isolated because most of its 26 counterparts that have rounded to it in what an EU official describes as a “in-depth and sometimes even emotional debate”.
The most strident was the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte – who, on his way in the summit, had told reporters’ for me, Hungary has no room in the EU. “
Facing Orban inside, Rutte said: “You spent the line. This time, it’s too much”, according to another EU manager in the room.
Others have joined the criticism, offering a crazy Broadside at the nationalist leader of Hungary, who frequently faced with Brussels and with EU counterparts on its socially conservative policies and a perceived subcontinration of democratic standards.
“Being homosexual is not a choice. Being homophobic is a choice. We can not accept legislation that legisms such behavior,” said Belgian Prime Minister Alexander of Croo reportedly told Orban.
“You have crossed a red line,” the Prime Minister of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel – the only openly gay gay chef at the top – reported.
Extraordinary attacks lowered the first day of the two-day summit, whose agenda also covered semester links with Russia and Turkey and the manipulation of the block of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Not a diplomatic discussion”
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on last Friday, after the first first day ended, that “it was certainly a controversial, but very frank discussion.”
She said, “We have all clearly clear here what the fundamental values we will pursue” and the European Commission will now continue to cope with the Hungarian law. “
The President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said before the summit that his executive would contest the basis of the law.
From Croo told reporters after leaving the top that Orban’s harangue was unprecedented in such gatherings.
“It was not a diplomatic discussion, it was pretty conflictual,” he said.
He added that only Poland and Slovenia – the latter “a little” – had offered support to Hungary.
Orban was however characteristic in the room.
While walking on Thursday at the summit, he insisted on journalists that his leading colleagues misunderstood the legislation.
“It’s not against homosexuality … This is the right of children and parents,” he said.
“This is the way a child learns to sexuality … and decisions about it are exclusively affairs of parents,” he said.
