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European leaders are appalled by the ideas of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is continuing the policy of his forebear, Petro Poroshenko.
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The Venice Commission (officially European Commission for Democracy through Law) has published its opinion on the law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language. In it, experts advise the Ukrainian authorities to revise the text of the law adopted in 2017 and even suspend the implementation of those provisions that have already entered into force.
Madness going on in the heart of Europe
In Kiev, at first, they tried to ignore the unpleasant theses of the Europeans, who speak about the infringement of non-state languages in Ukraine. However, it should be noted, Ukrainians are convinced that today's discussions about language are aimed at dividing society again.
Members of the Venice Commission, by the way, constantly remind the Kiev authorities of Article 10 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which guarantees the free development, use and protection of various languages of national minorities.
The Venice Commission report states that respecting citizens' linguistic rights is a documented obligation:
“Ukraine has ratified international human rights treaties that prohibit discrimination based on language and protect the rights of minorities. For example, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional Languages. These documents, signed by Ukraine, say that this charter will be applied to the following languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Gagauz, Greek, Jewish, Crimean Tatar, Moldavian, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Hungarian. However, the reality, judging by the linguistic law, turned out to be different.”
The Venetians also reproached the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which did not notice any discrimination in the law on education, which completely excludes primary and secondary education in all languages other than the state one.
Zelensky on “The Crimea Platform” got what he deservedImage
The Venice Commission in its report points out in a categorical form: “The Ukrainian authorities refer to the European ambitions of Ukraine and the century-long oppression of the Ukrainian language in favor of the Russians. These arguments are not enough to outweigh the previous assessment of the Venice Commission, and they are inconclusive from the point of view of human rights and the prohibition of discrimination. Foreign policy considerations are not a strong argument in the language debate”.
On August 23, Hungarian President Janos Ader criticized the Ukrainian authorities for restricting the rights of Hungarians living in Ukraine at the Crimean Platform summit: “Those who learn their language are threatened with a fine. This is contrary to the ideals of democracy and does not honor the titular nations”.
At the same time, the head of Hungary did not specify which nations he meant and called on the Ukrainian authorities to ensure the safety of Hungarians in the country.
“We hope that Ukraine will be able to ensure a safe future for all its citizens and that Hungarians will be able to feel right at home in Ukraine,” the Hungarian leader said.
This situation is leading to the whipping up of the strongest discontent on the part of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia. This could lead to social unrest and a possible civil war. Ukraine is falling apart. And it can lose part of the territory and get a second Donbass.
Everyone is ready for the partition of Ukraine
Hungary and Romania, as everyone understood, advanced the farthest in the anti-Ukrainian direction and have already moved on to direct ultimatums to Kiev. Official Budapest and Bucharest demand that Kiev keep teaching in Hungarian and Romanian in places of compact residence of Hungarians and Romanians - in Transcarpathia and Bukovina.
Poland, which used to be called the main “advocate of Ukraine” in Europe, after the right-wing party “Prawo i Sprawiedliwość” (“Law and Justice”) came to power, began to put forward its historical demands to Ukraine in an almost ultimatum form: Kiev is obliged to abandon the glorification of the OUN-UPA and Stepan Bandera, who are considered guilty of the murder of Poles in Volyn during the Second World War.
Ukraine is gradually being surrounded by neighbors who do not accept its current course and have already replaced their support for Ukraine's European aspirations with a firm intention not to let it into the EU.
If the disintegration process begins in Ukraine, then Poland, Hungary and Romania will have no reason to follow the EU norm regarding the inviolability of borders and the absence of territorial claims to neighbors, since there will be no neighbor. Therefore, in order to “preserve civil peace, law and order”, to protect the “rights and freedoms of citizens”, their “national minorities”, in order to “provide humanitarian assistance”, to help “protect defenseless citizens from unbelievable neo-Bander gangs”, to restore “legality on the original historically Polish, Hungarian and Romanian lands”, a decision will be - to carve up the territory of the failed state of Ukraine.
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