Thread by @SkyScottBeasley

🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇱 Real leadership in Europe: Netherlands Prime Minister says Hungary should no longer be in the EU following its anti-LGBT law

Mark Rutte: "For me, Hungary has no place in the EU anymore”

Rutte if they refuse to withdraw the legislation: “then as far as I am concerned, then there is nothing left for them in the EU”

“This is such a fundamental point, that if we let that go, we are nothing more than a trading block and a currency”

🇪🇺 The EU is split on the issue- along broadly east/west and social conservative/liberal lines

As Rutte says: "But I'm not the only one to decide this: there are 26 other (EU countries). This has to be done step by step”

🏳️‍🌈 16 EU member states have today declared their support for defending LGBT rights. Though the letter below does not mention Hungary by name. They are:

🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇪🇪 🇮🇪 🇬🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇨🇾 🇱🇻 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇳🇱 🇫🇮 🇸🇪

💥Rutte: “the long-term aim is to bring Hungary to its knees on this...They must realise they are part of the EU & this community of values, which means in Hungary...no one can be discriminated against & can feel free on grounds of sexuality, skin color, gender whatever”

🇱🇺 Luxembourg’s gay PM Bettel on the law: "I didn't get up one morning after having seen an advert on the TV of some brand... and say 'I'm gay'. That's not how life works. It's in me, I didn't chose it. And to accept oneself is hard enough. To be stigmatised too-that's too much."

Rutte very moving: “There are too many of these sort of issues emerging. I never thought that when I got this job 11 years ago we would be having these discussions about such fundamental values”

🇷🇺🇪🇺He also doesn’t want an EU summit with Russia: “Not when I am there at least”

Rutte on 🔥 as leaders confront Orban over Hungary’s new anti-LGBT law at #EUCO

https://twitter.com/naomiohreally/status/1408133399483719686