Gulyas: Linking child protection law, EU subsidies 'detrimental'

The European Union will "come to ruin" if "unrelated issues are linked", Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, told his weekly press conference on Thursday. Gulyas said that the EU's "legally linking" community recovery funds and Hungary's recent child protection law was "an extremely negative development". Gulyas insisted that Hungary was entitled to the funds. At the same time, he said: "There are more arguments for the EU membership than against it." Concerning the contested legislation, Gulyas said that the government would not give up its position that sex education was up to the parents, adding that "when Brussels demands equlity in sex education it means that we should allow LGBTQ activists into schools and kindergartens".