EU executive to sue Hungary over radio broadcaster, LGBT law

An anti-LGBT law in Hungary and the country’s refusal to renew the license of Klubradio, a broadcaster critical of the government, prompted the European Commission to sue Budapest on Friday.

The two lawsuits add fuel to fire of increasingly bitter standoffs between Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the predominantly leftist EU over human rights and democratic standards, Reuters reports.

“The European Commission today decided to refer Hungary to the Court of Justice of the EU over a Hungarian law which discriminates against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity,” said the EU's executive. It also sent a second lawsuit to the Luxembourg-based court over Budapest rejecting Klubradio's airwaves application.

“We address attacks to independent media via all the tools that we have,” said European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova.