The recent EU vs. Hungary showdown over Pride™ month serves as a perfect microcosm of the total cultural subversion of EU member states at the hands of unelected EU commission bureaucrats in Brussels.
For over a month, a coalition of EU member states, in coordination with EU headquarters in Brussels, has applied massive pressure on the Hungarian government to submit to the Pride™ agenda or face serious consequences… because Democracy™. (This pressure campaign includes €18 billion in EU funds currently withheld from Hungary.)
Via Politico, May 25 (emphasis added):
The majority of EU countries — including France and Germany — want the European Commission to crack down on Hungary over Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s plan to ban upcoming Pride celebrations in Budapest, according to a joint statement seen by POLITICO.
The move piles pressure on the Commission to penalize Budapest…
Sixteen countries backed the statement, which was coordinated by the Dutch foreign ministry, to call on Brussels to “expeditiously make full use of the rule of law toolbox at its disposal” to make Budapest relent on its Pride ban…
“We are highly alarmed by these developments,” reads the letter, signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Sweden.
France and Germany have also signed on, an EU diplomat told POLITICO.
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On June 25, EU Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen released this video statement over X (a platform, by the way, which she has previously condemned and threatened to target via lawfare):
I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants. To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond: I will always be your ally. You have every reason to be proud.
I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead.
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 25, 2025
Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants.
To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:
I will always be your ally. pic.twitter.com/Wz0GBFRz8C
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Last Saturday, the EU got its wish as a veritable army of Pride™ activists defied Orban and showed up in full-throated defiance of the government.
Orban accused Brussels of “directing opposition politicians to organize the event,” a claim that rings plausible to anyone who knows how these neoliberal organizations operate behind the scenes to push their social engineering projects.Via Reuters (emphasis added):
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Saturday's Pride "repulsive and shameful", accusing the EU of directing opposition politicians to organise the event, which turned into an anti-government protest, local media reported in Sunday.
The march in Budapest for LGBTQ+ swelled into one of the largest displays of opposition to Orban in recent years, as an estimated 100,000 participants defied a police ban and threats of fines to join the demonstration…
Orban said opposition politicians instructed by "Brussels" had called on their voters to attend the event in large numbers, according to local news outlet Index.
"Since yesterday, we are even more certain that these people [opposition politicians] must not be allowed near the helm of government. And we will not allow them," Orban told his supporters, according to Index.
He did not offer any evidence for his comments. But the event was organised by the municipality of Budapest, led by mayor Gergely Karacsony, and Orban's government has accused him of being a "puppet" of Brussels for years…
On Friday Orban said that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who earlier this week called on Hungarian authorities to let the Pride parade go ahead, regarded Hungary "as a subordinated country" and likened her message to receiving orders from Moscow in communist times.
