Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder supports the Allianz Arena football stadium in Munich to receive rainbow-colored decorative lighting for the European Championship match between the German and Hungarian national teams on Wednesday.

Markus Söder, in response to a question at a press conference held on Monday in Berlin on a different matter, said that he would consider the illumination of the stadium of the Bavarian provincial capital "a very good sign".

Illuminating the arena with the colors of the rainbow would be "a sign of the freedom of our society", so "I would strongly support it", said the president of the Christian Social Union (CSU).

In response to a question about the possible transfer of the final of the European Championship planned to London, he stated that "Munich is ready" to host the match.

As we wrote earlier, a petition was launched in Germany to light up the Allianz Arena in Munich in rainbow colors during the Germany-Hungary European Championship match on June 23. The initiators of the initiative want to express their displeasure with the recently adopted anti-gay law in Hungary.

Szijjártó sent a harsh message to the Germans

Péter Szijjártó considers it extremely harmful and dangerous "when anyone wants to mix politics with sports", Péter Szijjártó told reporters in Luxembourg after the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers. There have been a few such attempts in world history, "they went very wrong," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to the question. According to Péter Szijjártó, "there is clearly an intention to involve politics in relation to sport", since, as he said, "everyone knows what it is about.

Here in Hungary, we adopted a law to protect Hungarian children, and Western Europe is now protesting against it". They also want to express this by bringing politics into a sports event that has nothing to do with national legislation.

"I think this is extremely harmful, historical experience shows that this is bad," repeated Péter Szijjártó, noting that "the Germans, if anyone, know this very well."

"There is no such world" where bureaucrats from Brussels or liberal politicians from Western Europe tell us whether we can protect our children or not. Protecting Hungarian children is not only a right, but also a responsibility of the Hungarian legislature, said Péter Szijjártó.

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