Hungary has officially announced the blocking decisions of the EU towards rapprochement with Ukraine
The Hungarian government decided to block all further decisions of the European Union towards a rapprochement of the EU with Ukraine.
This was stated on Tuesday the Minister of foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Catro.
“We can guarantee that it will hurt the future of Ukraine”, – he said.
According to the statement, Ukraine “can forget about integrating into Europe”. The document also provides an explanation in the form of a direct quote of the Minister: “Hungary will block any initiatives beneficial to Ukraine in the international organizations, especially the EU.”
“Hungary, being in the European Union, will block and will veto any steps that could be further progress in European integration process of Ukraine in the spirit of the Eastern partnership programme,” said the foreign Ministry.
“The shame and disappointment that the President of Ukraine signed the law on education. We can guarantee that it will hurt the future of Ukraine”, – said in a statement.
Therefore, Budapest reacted to the signing by President Petro Poroshenko Law “On education”.
Videopreteen said that the new law on education provides equal opportunities for all
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We will remind that earlier from-for scandal around of the education law, the Romanian President cancels visit to Ukraine.
He noted that the new Ukrainian law “will sharply limit the access of minorities to education in their mother tongue”.
By the way, on 5 September during a meeting of the Rada adopted the law of Ukraine “On education”, which introduced the 12-year secondary education. The language of instruction in educational institutions determined by the state. The document envisages that the institutions can be taught one or more courses two or more languages – the state language, English and also in other official languages of the European Union.
Persons who belong to indigenous peoples and national minorities of Ukraine is guaranteed the right to education in their native language along with the Ukrainian language in public institutions of preschool and General secondary education.
Romania and Hungary criticized the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on education, believing that it violates the rights of national minorities in Ukraine. Statements with respect to Ukrainian law by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the two countries.
In turn, the President of Moldova Igor Dodon hopes that Ukraine will reject the new education act because of the violation of the rights of national minorities. According to him, the new education Act will lead to the abolition of the system of education in the native language of the ethno-cultural minorities in Ukraine.
Subsequently, in Russia, this law called “an act of forced Ukrainianization, which constituted a flagrant violation of Ukraine ratified the European Charter for regional or minority languages”. “The state Duma” the Russian Federation has prepared a statement in relation to the Ukrainian law on education, in which he condemned adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the document. The Russian foreign Ministry stressed that the document infringes on the interests of millions of Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine.