Hungary questions Germany's rule of law commitment in LGBT row
Reuters
3 hrs ago
* German soccer club sacked Hungarian coach for anti-LGBT remarks
* Hungary: Penalising opinion recalls 'totalitarian' Germany
* Germany has criticized anti-democratic drift in Hungary
By Marton Dunai and Thomas Escritt
BUDAPEST/BERLIN, April 8 (Reuters) - A top aide to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called into question Germany's democratic standards on Thursday after a German football club sacked a Hungarian coach for expressing anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT views.
"Expressing your opinion cannot be punished under the rule of law," Orban's chief of staff Gergely Gulyas told a press briefing. "I think this is outrageous, it is foremost Germany that has to answer whether it still upholds the rule of law."