LGBTQ+

Budapest has opened the door to using AI facial recognition to identify LGBTQ+ protestors.

German and Finnish authorities have taken similar steps, and Belgium is planning to do the same, as the Trump administration removes some protections for sexual minorities.

They set off smoke bombs in Budapest’s chamber — and have now been hit with record fines.

Fidesz says it’s trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the so-called LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister’s party is trying to create a wedge issue.

Iranian transgender man had been seeking to correct Hungary’s asylum register which listed him as a woman.

PM says he will “collect the opinion of the people” in a mail-in campaign that critics have derided as a propaganda tool.

Hungary ‘should not tolerate Pride marching’ through Budapest’s city center, top minister says.

Attacks against LGBTQ+ people are becoming “the testing ground for laws that erode democracy itself,” NGO’s executive director says.

MEPs had criticized the world football governing body for awarding the 2034 tournament to the Gulf petromonarchy.

U.S. president calls the clergywoman a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater,” “ungracious,” “nasty” and “not compelling or smart.”

Former MEP József Szájer, a close ally of the Hungarian PM, tells POLITICO he wants to show he’s more than just a meme.

Americans are rejecting some liberal values.

The State Department also condemned the “excessive use of force by police” after thousands of Georgians protested the halting of EU accession negotiations.

EU delegates left the room in protest against gender language backtracking.

Head of the Central Electoral Commission was doused with black paint as hundreds of opposition supporters staged a protest against the vote.

Joshua Kimmich says German team’s 2022 protest of the ban on pro-LGBTQ+ armbands in Qatar remains a “sour” memory.

Georgian Dream refused to meet with parliamentarians from eight EU countries following the fractious nationwide vote.

The diplomat says the Hungarian prime minister treated the U.S. election like “a card game at a casino.”

Opposition MPs refuse to take up their seats, raising the prospect of a one-party system. Protests loom.

The Hungarian PM is set to visit Tbilisi on Monday, highlight his split with other leaders of the bloc.

Opposition leaders have decried the voting as rigged.

The consequential election comes as the governing Georgian Dream party presides over a widening split with the West.