Political group leaders representing over 70% of the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to deny Hungary’s request for any more EU recovery funds in the latest front in the battle between EU lawmakers and Viktor Orbán’s government. In March, 15 EU governments joined the European Commission’s lawsuit against Hungary over amendments to a domestic child protection bill that would introduce a ban on minors’ access to any content that “propagates or portrays divergence from self-identity corresponding to sex at birth, sex change or homosexuality. Hungarian ministers say they have worked to address the Commission’s concerns with new provisions on judicial independence and anti-corruption reforms