Foreign ministry decries reports on agreement on Ukraine education reform

Hungary and Ukraine have not reached an agreement on the latter's controversial education law, Tamas Menczer, deputy state secretary of the foreign ministry, said on Thursday. Ukraine has yet to comply with the recommendations of the Venice Commission, he said. His statement came after Ukrainian reports of an alleged agreement between the two foreign ministries on the law, which last September restricted minority language use in education to kindergarten and elementary schools. Menczer said the reports were "fabrications". "Hungary's stance is firm and the same," Menczer said. "Budapest will continue to block Ukraine's international political aspirations until Transcarpathian Hungarian minorities report that they are satisfied with all details of the law," he said.