The new Hungarian law discriminates against homosexual minors, the German Chancellor said on Monday in Berlin.
At the hearing of the German-French parliamentary assembly, Angela Merkel, in response to a German Social Democratic representative's question about the EU's possibilities for enforcing the rule of law, explained that, in her government's opinion, the new Hungarian law "recognizes discrimination against homosexual minors".
In the "very comprehensive" debate on the legislation at the last meeting of the European Council, the vast majority of the board's members underlined that the EU is not only an internal market, but also has a foundation made up of values, and these values cannot be questioned, he said. However, the "room for maneuver" for their enforcement is very limited, so we must not "create false expectations", said Angela Merkel.
He pointed out that due to the decision-making procedure based on the full agreement of the member states, it is "not very easy" to "encourage a greater rule of law" in a member state, because "there are countries that will not vote against each other." At the same time, not only "the formality of the law" must be applied, but also "very, very comprehensive and in-depth discussions" must be conducted, and in addition to naming the accusations and objections, efforts must also be made to resolve the contradictions, otherwise the European Union will not remain united.
This was "very clearly" shown during the debate on the new Hungarian law in the European Council on Thursday evening, explained Angela Merkel.
"You can distance yourself from each other very quickly and very decisively, but problems have never been solved in Europe in this way, so you need persistence, and I am already predicting that we will need this in the coming months," said the German Chancellor.
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