Hungarian foreign minister urges Ukraine to honor Hungarian-language school commitments
Foreign Minister Anita Orban called on Ukraine to fulfill its promises on Hungarian-language education and legal protection for minority schools ahead of an EU council meeting.
Anita Orban stressed the need for Ukraine to keep its pledges regarding Hungarian-language instruction and the legal status of minority schools before the EU Foreign Affairs Council convened in Luxembourg. She noted an upcoming debate and vote in Ukraine's Supreme Council on a minority-rights bill and said Budapest is waiting for Kyiv's response. Hungary will track the law's implementation together with Transcarpathian Hungarian representatives through the education sub-committee of the mixed intergovernmental economic commission.
Why it matters
Ensuring minority language rights affects social cohesion and EU-Ukraine diplomatic ties.
How this story developed
- Sep 28 EU drafts step-by-step accession roadmaps for Montenegro, Ukraine, Moldova and Albania
- Sep 29 The European Commission has prepared a proposal to shift most unanimous votes in EU enlargement talks to qualified-majority voting, keeping veto power only at the start and end of a candidate's accession process.
- Oct 6 The Commission introduced a shift from unanimous to qualified‑majority voting for most accession steps.
- Oct 10 EU has begun drafting specific accession roadmaps for Montenegro, Ukraine, Moldova and Albania.
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