An EU Rogue May Pay for Weaponizing Gay Rights
Protesters with a poster of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during Christopher Street Day, an annual LGBTQ+ event, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Photographer: Picture Alliance/Getty ImagesA fight that started over a book of modernized fairy tales has morphed into a defining test for the European Union.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban is intensifying an assault against Hungary’s LGBTQ community. As Veronika Gulyas, Flavia Krause-Jackson and Zoltan Simon report, that could prompt the bloc to shut the taps on financial aid that has fueled the country’s economic transformation for almost two decades.