{"id":2071,"date":"2017-10-11T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T11:00:13","slug":"ukrainian-new-educational-law-towards-the-end-of-ukraines-european-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2017\/10\/11\/ukrainian-new-educational-law-towards-the-end-of-ukraines-european-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian new educational law: towards the end of Ukraine\u2019s European integration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine \u2013 Early September, the Ukrainian parliament passed a reform of the education system, imposing Ukrainian as the compulsory secondary school language. Many countries oppose this reform, while Hungary appeals to the European Union and threatens to block Ukraine\u2019s rapprochement with the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early September, the Rada \u2013 the Ukrainian parliament \u2013 passed a reform of education. From now on, the only language of secondary education will be the Ukrainian. This is therefore the end of teaching in the languages of recognized minorities, such as Russian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish or even Greek.<\/p>\n<p>Following the vote of this law, representatives of countries linked to concerned national minorities in Ukraine expressed altogether their unfavorable opinion regarding the reform. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman then promised that his country would await the Venice Commission\u2019s opinion before ratifying the law. But despite this, President Poroshenko signed the law before any further outside opinion\u2026 apart from the positive one from the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, 37 MEPs \u2013 from Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary \u2013 together called in\u00a0an open letter\u00a0the President\u2019s attention to the fact that this law violates several international agreements, in particular Article 8 of the\u00a0European Charter of regional or minority languages, as well as Articles 13 and 14 of the\u00a0Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, but also Romania and Hungary, which have their own parallel school system in Ukraine, have labelled this law as discriminating for their respective minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary has reacted in the most virulent way. Considering itself to be betrayed, \u201cstabbed by a knife in the back\u201d, after supporting the visa-free regime for Ukraine or sending aid to areas hit by civil war, Hungary, through its Minister Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 described as shameful and scandalous these moves contrary to the spirit of the European Union, of which Ukraine wants to become a member.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that Hungary would henceforth block Ukraine\u2019s progress on European integration in the framework of the Eastern Partnership of the EU. Hungary is also planning to veto any further aid to Ukraine from the European Union for now on. A meeting will be held on Thursday, October 12, between Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and his Hungarian counterpart to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine \u2013 Early September, the Ukrainian parliament passed a reform of the education system, imposing Ukrainian as the compulsory secondary school language. Many countries oppose this reform, while Hungary appeals to the European Union and threatens to block Ukraine\u2019s rapprochement with the EU. Early September, the Rada \u2013 the Ukrainian parliament \u2013 passed a reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}