Hungary announced that it will block Ukraine’s aspirations to integrate into NATO over a law that forces all Ukrainians study in a single language, APA reports quoting sputniknews.
Hungary stated that it cannot support Ukraine's integration into the military bloc and vetoed the NATO-Ukraine Committee summit scheduled take place in December, the Foreign Ministry of Hungary announced, according to a statement published on the country's government website.
The reason for the veto lies with the so-called Law on Education, adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament in September. According to the law, school students will be required to study in the Ukrainian language. The law allows for one or several disciplines to be taught in another language — either English or other official European Union language.
"The law specifies that the language of the educational process at schools and colleges is the national language. It is also stipulated that educational institutions, according to the educational program, could teach one or more subjects in two or more languages, namely the national language, English or other official languages of the European Union," UNIAN news agency reported in September.
According to Hungary's Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Szijarto, the recently adopted law "brutally mutilates" the rights of minorities living in the country. There are some 150,000 ethnic Hungarians living in Ukraine's Zakarpatie region.
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