June 22 (Reuters) – Hungary’s new law banning the “display and promotion of homosexuality” among under-18s clearly violates European Union values, Germany said on Tuesday.

“The European Union is not primarily a single market or a currency union. We are a community of values, these values bind us all,” German Europe Minister Michael Roth told reporters ahead of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg.

“There should be absolutely no doubt that minorities, sexual minorities too, must be treated respectfully.”

Reporting by Sabine Siebold in Berlin; Editing by Alex Richardson

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