HUNGARY IN EU FUNDING ROW

HUNGARIAN Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the EU of not approving his government’s post-coronavirus recovery plan due to a row over LGBTQ rights. The European Commission is responsible for paying out the bloc’s €800 billion (about R14bn) pandemic recovery fund but has yet to give Hungary the greenlight for its €7.2bn plan. Tensions with its EU partners boiled over in June after an anti-LGBTQ law adopted by the Hungarian parliament, which critics say equates paedophilia to homosexuality.