The advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said Hungary infringed European law by restricting access to LGBTQ+ content in an advisory opinion published Thursday.
Tamara Ćapeta stated that Hungary has deviated from the EU’s values and recommended the CJEU find that the nation infringed Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union (TEU):
The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
In 2021, the Hungarian government introduced legi