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"Freedom of speech, Mr President, including the freedom to choose the language you wish to speak, is a fundamental human right. A language is a symbol of paramount importance to the people who speak it, the basis for their self-identity. Anyone who thinks this of their own language must respect the language of every other community. However, one of the EU’s official languages, Hungarian, has recently come under attack in Slovakia, in a way which goes completely against the European mindset. Its language law blatantly discriminates against the right of the half a million-strong Hungarian community to use its own language. In some cases, a fine of EUR 5 000 may also be imposed.
The European Union is committed to cultural and linguistic diversity, and a commissioner for multilingualism was even appointed with this in mind. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which has also been ratified by Slovakia, guarantees the right of citizens to use their mother tongue at every education level, for administrative matters, in public institutions and official documents. The only mainstay of the EU institutions cannot allow one of the Member States to blatantly contravene fundamental EU norms and launch an attack against minority rights without speaking out."@en1
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