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The Hungarian bill is a shame. I've instructed my responsible commissioners to write a letter to the Hungarian authorities concerning or expressing our legal concerns before the bill enters into force.

Welcome to EU Confidential, Europe's number one politics podcast. I'm Andrew Gray, Politico's

EU editor in Brussels. And you just heard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen talking about a new bill in Hungary that would make it illegal to portray and promote homosexuality and gender change to minors under the age of 18.

It's a measure that's provoked outrage across much of Europe,

and we'll get into that and how the debate over LGBTQ rights has even spilled into European football

in just a moment with our podcast panel.

And later in this episode, the European Commission's Vice President

for Inter-Institutional Relations and Forsyte,

Maris Schaefftrovich, is our special guest.

He discusses his role in enforcing the UK withdrawal agreement

and the nickname he's come to embrace as part of those negotiations.

How do you find personally this

sausage king moniker? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I was, I mean, a bit amused. And I think it just

underlined the fact how the UK said was happy about that solution. And so, I mean, it's

Michael's sense of sense of humor. humor and therefore as a sausage king I

definitely do not want the sausage war if I can say it this way but so I'm ready to do everything be sure

to stay tuned later in the podcast for that conversation with politico's josh posanor but first let's

talk Hungary French politics politics, Brexit and

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