This is evident from a tweet from Hungary’s Secretary of State responsible for international communications, Zoltan Kovacs, posted on March 25.
The spokesperson states that the minister is of the opinion that “Hungarian schools in (Ukraine) are in danger”.
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In a meeting with UN Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, Brands Kheris, Szijjarto said that “while 1,300 Hungarian schools and kindergartens are accepting children and students who are refugees from Ukraine, 99 Hungarian primary and secondary schools in Ukraine are at risk of closure due to Ukrainian education law.”
The Education Act was passed by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017. It states that the language of the educational process in educational institutions is the state language, but different subjects can be taught in two or more languages.
Hungary was one of the first countries to criticize the new law. Six years ago, Budapest began threatening that it would thereby block Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration.
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