Beregovo city council limited the status of Hungarian language

Authorities of Beregovo failed to fully implement the "language" law in the city. The stumbling block, informed "DT", was the provision of the law requiring civil servants to speak a regional language. Even in Beregovo, where 48% of the polulation are Hungarians, only a third of officials speak Hungarian language.

Thus, members of Beregovo City Council were able to implement only some of the provisions of the "Law on state language policy principles." These include: ensuring production of official stationery, stamps, seals and signage of municipality in Ukrainian and Hungarian, the use of the Hungarian language, along with the state one in the manufacture of signs, the implementation of appropriate measures to avoid public humiliation of the state and Hungarian languages.

Thus, the Beregovo city council ignored the principal provisions.

As previously reported, on September 7th Beregovo City Council decided to recognize the Hungarian language as regional.