The EP plenary adopted a statement about Hungary at 16 February 2012 – Strasbourg. Unfortunately the protection of the LGBT people’s rights is not even a mentioned, nor in the adopted statement neither in the issued communiqué. The importance of combating discrimination appears only as a peripheral issue as well in these documents. The significance of the issues listed in the statement respecting the operation of a democratic constitutional state is beyond doubt (the full independence of the judiciary, National Bank, information, institutional independence of data protection, restoring the right of the Constitutional Court to review any legislation, the freedom and pluralism of the media, the system of checks and balances, etc.) anyway, saddening that the EP did not raise his voice against the degradation of LGBT people into second-class citizens in Hungary. This fact issues a poor certificate of efficiency of Hungarian and international gay rights organizations’ activity, and the commitment of MEPs in respect of gay rights.
