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Hungary Should Re-create Fertile Ground for Ethnic Minorities
Friday 12 March 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, March 12 (TASR) - Slovakia is disquieted by the conclusions concerning Hungary in the Council of Europe's latest evaluation report focused on the application of the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages.
The Council's committee of ministers earlier this week discussed the report which, among other things, assesses Hungary's attitude towards maintaining bilingual education in Slovak language in schools.
"We expect that Budapest, in cooperation with the Council of Europe, will do its best to carry out what it was recommended, in order to prevent the currently unfortunate state from worsening, when it comes to minority language use in Hungary," said spokesman of the Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry Peter Stano on Friday. He added that Hungary is expected to recreate favourable conditions to make way for national, cultural and linguistic diversity - so typical for this region of Europe in the past - to survive.
The report, evaluating Hungary's fulfilment of what the country is obliged to in the Charter, critically concluded that Hungary has taken a stance that will make it hard to save minority languages. In the past, the problem was also raised by Hungary's ethnic minorities ombudsmen.
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