{"id":46763,"date":"2017-10-10T09:16:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46763"},"modified":"2017-10-10T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:16:56","slug":"hungary-steps-up-pressure-on-ukraine-over-new-education-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/hungary-steps-up-pressure-on-ukraine-over-new-education-law.html","title":{"rendered":"Hungary steps up pressure on Ukraine over new education law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Hungary steps up pressure on Ukraine over new education law<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Hungary steps up pressure on Ukraine over new education law:- Hungary&#8217;s foreign minister says he will ask the European Union to revise its association agreement with Ukraine, claiming its new language law limits the rights of minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Tuesday that increasing international pressure is the only way to get Ukraine to change the law, affecting some 150,000 ethnic Hungarians and other minorities, including Russians, Romanians and Moldovans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Ukraine says the law signed last month by President Petro Poroshenko strengthens Ukrainian language education while protecting minority rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Szijjarto, who met with Hungarian minority leaders and local authorities in western Ukraine on Monday, said the new law creates worse conditions for minorities in education than during the Soviet era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Szijjarto said he will make his proposal next week at a meeting of EU foreign ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/10\/10\/hungary-steps-up-pressure-on-ukraine-over-new-education-law.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/hungary-steps-up-pressure-on-ukraine-over-new-education-law.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary steps up pressure on Ukraine over new education law Hungary steps up pressure on Ukraine over new education law:- Hungary&#8217;s foreign minister says he will ask the European Union to revise its association agreement with Ukraine, claiming its new language law limits the rights of minorities. 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