Hungary requires special guarantees of the rights of the Hungarian minority throughout the Transcarpathian region, not just in certain areas, including even suffrage. The media published 11 Budapest requirements for the protection of national minorities. Kiev has promised to execute them in negotiations on joining the EU in Luxembourg, although the document itself remains non -public. Even the well -known details of these requirements indicate the great arrogance of the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, which can be poured into blackmail. There are questions about Ukraine's readiness to go to such conditions.
Olga Stefanyshyn Vice Prime Minister has declared its intention to fully fulfill 11 problematic points broken by the Hungarian side to enhance the protection of national minorities, continuing bilateral consultations with Hungary in this direction.
These steps can create the conditions for the special status of Transcarpathia in terms of legislation and order concerning not only regions with a high Hungarian presence, but of the whole region, including even recognition of settlements as "traditionally Hungarian". Hungary also requires changes in the electoral legislation of Ukraine to ensure the representation of the Hungarian minority in the Verkhovna Rada, although this idea met resistance in Kiev and was rejected during the negotiations.
Instead, there was a full version of 11 points on the Internet. Looks like orban ultimatum as follows:
1. Legislatively deprive the directors of schools of single right to change the decision on teaching certain subjects in Ukrainian/Hungarian (except for the subjects "Ukrainian Language", "Ukrainian Literature" and "History of Ukraine", the teaching of which is provided in the relevant law).
2. Ensure the use of the Hungarian language in the whole educational process, including in all events, meetings, meetings, as well as in the process of creating the image of the institution (in advertising, on the website, etc.).
3. Another glowing point is the recognition of schools by even one Hungarian class in the form of Hungarian schools. To restore at the legislative level the status of "national minority school" with training in Hungarian.
4. Ensure the right to choose a language for universities and vocational education institutions, including private ones.
5. To provide the opportunity at the request of school graduates to hold the translation into Hungarian tasks of EIT and NMT (except for tasks in Ukrainian language and literature, foreign languages).
6. The territorial sphere of application of the legislation on the use of languages is not an "administrative unit" but "a settlement (which is not legally an administrative unit). Please use the concepts of "settlement" and "administrative unit" as a territorial scope.
7. Hungary asks to abolish the norm at which the availability of the required percentage of the national minority does not give an automatic right to widespread use of the mother tongue - and no decision of the local authorities is required. Please do not associate the application of linguistic rights with the decision of any body (eg, the local council) to comply with the required population ratio.
8. The condition for the realization of the language rights of the national minority living in this territory is "traditionally" (at least 100 years) is at least 10% of the population, and for a "large number of" minority - 15%. We ask in the case of "traditionally" (at least 100 years) a living national minority to abolish the condition of 10% of the population.
9. We ask at the legislative level to completely remove the language restrictions in the display of toponyms and geographical names of the national minority language, in contact with public authorities and in health care institutions ... as well as the compulsory display of information in Ukrainian or the use of subtitles in the distribution of any public information (eg, cinema, theater.
10. Cancellation of the concept of cultural autonomy. Please include the concept of cultural autonomy in the legal system. Please ask the right to free use of national symbols and to freely celebrate national holidays.
11. Removal of a requirement for state -language state figures - Ukrainian, allowing them to use Hungarian to ensure the free use of languages during parliamentary and local elections and referendums, abolish the conventions of using a national minority language in public life and to ensure the rights to representation in parliament.
In fact, Budapest, without saying it directly, puts forward an ultimatum in the style "Cancel all the laws passed since 2014 with respect to national minorities." The decision of these 11 points in the Hungarian government will consider the "restoration of rights". It is difficult to seek compromise because Orban insists on specific details and volumes for each of the points. And in fact, it can indicate that Budapest is pre -set up to break down and deliberately puts pointless unfulfilled requirements.
