A total of 317 representatives voted in favor of adopting the Minority Law with registration number 10288-1, which is necessary for Ukraine to be able to join the European Union, he wrote. union.
Laws related to combating corruption and minorities were also amended
The Minority Act stipulates that privately owned higher education institutions are free to choose any EU language as the language of instruction. At the same time, learning the Ukrainian language will remain compulsory for students.
From now on, national minorities can use any EU language in political advertisements, in public schools and universities, in national minority administrations and in the media, with the exception of Russian. The amendment to the law provides the opportunity to study in the mother tongue until the end of secondary school.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Three other amendments to the law Which aims to help fight corruption. The President of Ukraine also signed the law strengthening the independence of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, the law strengthening the organizational capacity of the National Anti-Corruption Office of Ukraine, as well as the law dealing with the harmonization of certain provisions of legislation on the prevention of corruption with the conclusions of the European Commission. The recent law gives the National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) the opportunity to verify the possession of assets by actors exercising public power.
The government has lost one of its trump cards
Viktor Orban and the Hungarian government have been protesting Ukraine’s accession to the European Union for a long time. In recent days, the Prime Minister has also emphasized this, which is why French President Emmanuel Macron invited him to Paris for negotiations.
One of the government’s regularly repeated arguments against Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is that the interests of Hungarians in the Transcarpathia region have been harmed. Your car The European Commission in Lisbon responded at the beginning of November for your latest expansion pack We put it this way: “Since Ukraine, according to the European Commission, has not met the specified conditions for candidacy for EU membership, we do not consider any further steps to be timely regarding accession negotiations with Ukraine.”
In light of all this, next week will be even more important For a summit meeting of heads of state and government, where the issue of accession of Ukraine and Moldova may also be on the agenda.
(Cover photo: Viktor Orban on November 13, 2023. Photo: Zoltan Fischer/ Prime Minister’s Press Office/MTI)
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