EU leaders defend LGBT rights amid concern over Hungary law

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, centre, talks to Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev, left, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades during an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

European Union leaders have clashed with Hungary’s prime minister over new legislation in his country that will ban showing content about LGBT issues to children.

A majority of the leaders insisted that discrimination must not be tolerated in the 27-nation bloc and told Viktor Orban that the new Hungarian law goes against the EU’s fundamental values.