PM Office: Linking child protection law, EU subsidies ‘detrimental’

The European Union will “come to ruin” if “unrelated issues are linked”, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told his weekly press conference on Thursday.

Gulyás said that the EU’s “legally linking” community recovery funds and Hungary’s recent child protection law was “an extremely negative development”.

Gulyás insisted that Hungary was entitled to the funds, but emphasised that being an EU member was in Hungary’s interest.

“There are more arguments for the EU membership than against it.”

Concerning the contested legislation, Gulyás said that the government would not give up its position that sex education was up to the parents, adding that “when Brussels demands equlity in sex education it means that we should allow LGBTQ activists into schools and kindergartens”.

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EC climate change plan ‘unacceptable’ in current form

Hungary considers the European Commission’s new “Fit for 55” catch-all climate change plan “unacceptable in its current form”, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.

Gergely Gulyás told a regular press briefing that the EC’s plan would make households, rather than polluters bear the costs of the fight against climate change, and would also “destroy” the achievements of the government’s policy of reducing household utility fees.

Hungary is prepared to support a more ambitious climate plan, Gulyás said, adding, however, that most European Union member states were not even honouring the commitments they had made so far.

He also underscored the importance of making climate protection and emissions reduction a global issue.

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Source: MTI