From now on, teachers and students in Transcarpathia’s Hungarian schools will only be able to speak Hungarian to each other from 5 p.m., after class time, according to the new decree, which prohibits Hungarian doctors from speaking to their patients in Hungarian. from now on, TV news.
Andrea Boxkor described the idea as nonsense. As he said, Ukraine would like to become a member of the European Union, but to achieve this it must guarantee the rights of national minorities at the beginning of accession negotiations.
The debate over the free use of the language for the minority has been ongoing in Ukraine since 2017, when the Ukrainian parliament passed an education law that makes it practically impossible to teach in the mother tongue in Hungarian schools in Subcarpathia after the fifth grade, he wrote. New Hungarian word Follow online karpat.in.ua. According to the logic of Ukrainian representatives, minorities do not speak Ukrainian well enough, but according to experts, this is not the best way to teach the state language.
Anti-Hungarian sentiment became increasingly bothersome to Munkacs
As we wrote at the beginning of September, as autumn approached, Hungarians living across the border in Ukraine continued to be denied their rights. Subcarpathians II. The Hungarian national anthem was banned at the opening of the school year on Friday, the use of the Hungarian flag and national colors was banned, and the principal’s greeting was only in Ukrainian, Ferenc Rákóczi High School reported.
Earlier, referring to a recent decree, Ukrainian police removed Hungarian flags from several public institutions, Munkácsi II. The principal of Ferenc Rakoczi High School received his dismissal overnight without giving any reason.
The Presidency of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Subkarpattia (KMKSZ) loudly protested the fact that the Munkacs City Council appointed a director who had no connection with the Hungarian community nor with the school.
Index has contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in this regard. “While we accept more than 5,000 Ukrainian refugee children and students in Hungarian schools, there are 15,000 Hungarian students in Transcarpathia who are forced to suffer the Ukrainization of Hungarian national education,” Matej Baczolay, foreign affairs spokesman, told our newspaper.
According to Kiev, the needs of the Hungarian minority are being met
The Ukrainian Minister responsible for accession to the European Union, Olha Sztevanysyna, recently gave an interview to Euronews, in which she also talked about To meet the needs of the Hungarian minority, he said the dialogue had yielded good results.
There are still steps to come, but you can be sure that Ukraine’s plans do not include anything bad for the Hungarian minority. Rather, they have benefited from the attention directed toward Ukraine since we became candidates for membership.
– Tell Look at Sztefaniysina.
