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Ukraine should suspend language bill debate, says govering Fidesz
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Ukraine should suspend the debate on its language bill and pass a law that is in line with European norms and does not curtail the acquired rights of the country’s minorities, Zsolt Németh, the head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
Addressing a roundtable discussion on language rights in Ukraine, Fidesz MP Németh said Ukraine’s language bill gave cause for concern, arguing that it would restrict the use of minority languages to private life.
Hungary is baffled by the bill, he said, adding that it had added to the bilateral tensions caused by the enactment of the country’s education law. Németh said the only way to resolve the dispute was for Ukraine to submit the bill to the Venice Commission and wait for the body to publish an opinion on the bill before approving it.
“Isolation cannot be in Ukraine’s interest,” Németh said. “If there’s a path to peace and if there’s a perspective of Western integration, they can only lead through respect for human, and specifically, minority rights,” he added.