EU Commissioner Jessika Roswall expresses solidarity with LGBTQ+ group

Revealed on 30/05/2025 – 16:31 GMT+2•Up to date
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EU Commissioner for the Surroundings and Water Resilience, Jessika Roswall, says “anyone who wants to join in solidarity with the LGBTQ community in Hungary should do so.”

She was responding to the Hungarian authorities’s choice to ban Homosexual Pleasure parades, a call that has been closely condemned by a majority of EU member states together with France, Germany and Spain.

“The European Union is built on values, which, of course, we all stand behind, and this is the pressure we are in this union of – one of the key things is built of this precious value of people’s freedom and loving whoever they want to, or rule of law and all these things,” Roswall informed Euronews.

“So I stand, of course, behind that and I myself have been to many prides, only in Stockholm though,” she added.

In the meantime, a European Fee supply informed Euronews that it is unlikely EU Commissioners will stand in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ group because it may very well be seen to “provoke” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and open the door to him accusing the EU of interfering in Hungarian affairs.

“I think it would play into Orbán’s hands were senior people from Brussels to turn up,” the supply mentioned.

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Nevertheless, regulation consultants and a few member states argue the European Fee is obliged to guard the rights and freedoms of EU residents below Article 2 of the EU Treaty.

A bunch of 17 member states led by the Netherlands signed a declaration condemning the Hungarian choice.

We’re “concerned by the implications of these measures on freedom of expression, the right to peaceful assembly, and the right to privacy,” a part of their assertion learn.

EU Commissioner of Justice and Rule of Regulation Michael McGrath has known as freedom of meeting a elementary proper that have to be protected.

He insisted that Pleasure marches don’t represent a menace to youngsters, because the Hungarian parliament argued. 

In the meantime, Roswall says she doesn’t need to make selections for others however says that the problem is on the centre of her beliefs and the values of the 27-member bloc. 

“I don’t tell people what to do, but that’s what I truly believe in, and that is also the core of the European Union,” she defined.

The Budapest Pleasure occasion is about to happen on 28 June in defiance of the brand new regulation, and whereas a number of MEPs have indicated their intention to attend, no European Commissioners have.