Overview
- Prosecutors in Budapest and Pécs dropped criminal charges on Thursday against Mayor Gergely Karácsony and organiser Géza Buzás‑Hábel for the 2025 Pride events, saying the EU court ruling made prosecution unlawful.
- The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in late April that Hungary’s 2021 provisions restricting content about homosexuality and gender identity to minors conflict with Article 2 TEU and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
- Authorities said they had acted under Hungarian law when filing the January charges but must now follow the primacy of EU law and therefore will not pursue the cases.
- Hungarian police have said they will allow Budapest Pride to go ahead this year, while human rights groups are calling for the national law to be repealed because the CJEU decision does not itself erase domestic statutes.
- The developments sharpen a test for the new Tisza‑aligned government over whether it will amend or repeal the 2021 measures and shape how EU rule‑of‑law enforcement affects member‑state laws and civic protest rights.