Overview

• The Hungarian parliament’s March law empowers police to ban public LGBTQ+ events on child protection grounds and use facial recognition to identify attendees.
• Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony declared the June 28 Pride parade a municipal event to bypass national permit requirements.
• Orban’s chief of staff Gergely Gulyás announced that police will assess the event under assembly laws and could still prohibit the march.
• Over 70 MEPs from liberal, left and green groups have pledged to join the parade in defiance of the government’s prohibition.
• The European Commission is examining the compatibility of Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ measures with EU law and has active infringement proceedings at the European Court of Justice.