The new Ukrainian law on education: a major impediment to the teaching of national minorities' mother tongues

Amendment No. 11 | Doc. 14415 | 11 October 2017

Signatories:

Ms Elvira KOVÁCS, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Ms Mónika BARTOS, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Mladen BOSIĆ, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD ; Ms Márta DEMETER, Hungary, NR ; Mr Bernd FABRITIUS, Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Gábor HARANGOZÓ, Hungary, SOC ; Ms Rózsa HOFFMANN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr István HOLLIK, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Attila KORODI, Romania, EPP/CD ; Ms Borjana KRIŠTO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, EPP/CD ; Mr Killion MUNYAMA, Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Aleksander POCIEJ, Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Cezar Florin PREDA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Ionuț-Marian STROE, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Attila TILKI, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Tobias ZECH, Germany, EPP/CD

Origin

2017 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 4 with the following paragraph:

"According to Article 8 of the European Charter for Regional or Minority languages, ratified by Ukraine, the right to learn in a relevant regional or minority language at different levels of the education system has to be assured "without prejudice to the teaching of the official language(s) of the state"."