France is concerned about the “amalgamations” and “instrumentalisation” around the referendum announced by Budapest on the anti-LGTB + law denounced by its EU partners, French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune said on Friday.
“I am concerned about the Hungarian law which was adopted in mid-June and which is the subject of a referendum which does not actually relate exactly to this law”, he said on his arrival for a meeting. informal with his EU counterparts at Brdo Castle (Slovenia). “There are amalgamations and instrumentalizations which are deleterious and problematic within the EU,” he lamented.
A referendum to counter the EU
The resilience of the EU in the face of challenges and crises will be one of the themes of the meeting’s discussions. “Resilience means knowing how to defend together our values which are sometimes attacked even within the EU,” said Clément Beaune. “We must not give up on these points,” he insisted.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday announced a referendum on the law, which bans the “promotion” of homosexuality among minors, to denounce an “abuse of power” by the European Commission after the outbreak of an infringement procedure to try to have it annulled.
Several questions on the program
Adopted on June 15, this new Hungarian law, originally aimed at combating child crime, notably prohibits the evocation of homosexuality and sex reassignment among minors. Viktor Orban did not put forward a date for the holding of this referendum, but listed five questions presented as demands that the European Union wants to impose on Hungary and to which he asks the Hungarians to answer “no”.
In particular, Hungarians are asked if they accept that the school “talks about sexuality to their children without their consent”, if they support “the promotion of sex reassignment treatment for minors” or “unrestricted presentation in front of minors of media content of a sexual nature which affects their development ”.