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EU proposes new rules to protect LGBTQ+ people amid 'worrying trends'
Andrzej Duda.Jourová said the commission was also following events in Hungary, where a constitutional amendment was proposed this week by Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government to ensure that only heterosexual married couples can adopt children.The Hungarian government’s legislative initiatives, announced without any consultation, were justified on the grounds that “new, modern ideologies in the western world raise doubt about the creation of the male and female sex, and endanger the right of children to have healthy development”.Jourová, a former minister in the Czech Republic, said such claims belonged to “the authoritarian playbook and it does not have a place in the European Union”.“Constitutional reforms should always be subject to a