Is Ukraine not a NATO member because of an education law?
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War is raging in Ukraine. Many are waiting for NATO to help, but Ukraine is not a member of NATO. According to one theory, Ukraine did not join NATO because it did not repeal an education law passed in the fall of 2017. Hungary, among others, protested against this law. This legislation also restricts the mother tongue education of Hungarians in Transcarpathia, in violation of fundamental human rights.
Controversial education law
In September 2017, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, called the new Ukrainian education law shameful and disgraceful. Article 7 of the law states that the education of national minorities in their mother tongue is permitted only in the first four grades.
From the fifth grade onwards, students can study all subjects only in Ukrainian.
This prevents not only the learning of the Hungarian language but also its use, index.hu writes. The Hungarian government immediately stated that it considered the law unacceptable. Until Ukraine repeals this part of the law, Hungarian diplomacy will block all matters important to Ukraine.
Is Ukraine not a member of NATO because of Hungary?
“This prevents not only the learning of the Hungarian language, but also its use.” – FALSE. The Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning states in its report ‘The Hungarian Language Education in Ukraine’ that “At the third type of schools, Hungarian is taught as a compulsory subject while Ukrainian is the instruction language. Finally, there are schools where Hungarian is an optional subject.” In other word the core syllabus is in the national language (Ukrainian) but the study of Hungarian is either mandatory or optional (depending upon the ethnic composition of the pupils).
Anonymous if you write is true, Romanians would not be claiming the same Hungarian argument. Again, you are here to just go against anything Hungarian. Keep your hate and go away.
@Edward, instead of basking in ignorance and slinging insults my way, since you are such a keyboard warrior, why don’t you look the report up – it’s online. Here is the link:
https://www.mercator-research.eu/fileadmin/mercator/documents/regional_dossiers/hungarian_in_ukraine.pdf
I intensely dislike people like you who attack others who happen to have looked into a subject when they themselves have not.