#eu-court-ruling

#eu-court-ruling

Police in Hungary have said they will allow next month's Pride parade in Budapest to take place, signalling a reversal from last year when they sought to block the event on the orders of the government of the rightwing former prime minister Viktor Orban. Last year's march made headlines around the world after Orban's Fidesz party backed legislation the first of its kind in the EU's recent history that created a legal basis for Pride events to be banned, citing a widely criticised need to protect children.

As Jennifer Rankin reports at The Guardian, the case involved a product called Virgin Gin Alkoholfrei. The organization Verband Sozialer Wettbewerb ("Association for Social Competition") filed a lawsuit against the company selling booze-free gin, arguing that to call a beverage without alcohol "gin" was misleading.The court agreed and went on to clarify that "gin" could only be used to describe beverages that met a specific list of criteria, including the use of juniper berries and presence of ethyl alcohol.