Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-24-Speech-2-501"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2009-11-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Use of minority languages within the framework of the European cultural heritage (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"sk"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20091124.39.2-501"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2009-11-24-Speech-2-5022
lpv:speaker	lp:Lajos Bokros2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; ECON (2009-07-21--2012-01-18)3 member_of_the_bureau; PECH (2009-07-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Magyar Demokrata Fórum (2009-07-14--2013-10-24)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; BUDG (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3
lpv:translated text	"Slovak is one of the most beautiful languages in Europe but it is seldom heard in the European Parliament. As a true friend of Slovakia, a long-term supporter of its development and a modest but active participant in Slovak reforms, I would be delighted to assist my Slovak friends in overcoming this disadvantage and, at the same time, in contributing towards Slovak being spoken and understood by an ever wider circle of people. I firmly believe that we will succeed in protecting the diversity of Slovak language and culture. The Slovak language does not wish to develop at the expense of other languages. Precisely for this reason, it is incomprehensible that a law dealing with the use of ethnic minority languages defines for them a much narrower range of use than for Slovak. This law in fact only treats the use of these languages as an option, and it views this option only in a negative way and not as a positive right, failing to regard it as a right that can be demanded and applied in everyday life. In offices in Slovakia, there is still no use of printed forms in Hungarian and there are not even any official translations of the laws and legal standards of the Slovak Republic into Hungarian. The amendment of the national language law has made the situation even more difficult. Ethnic minority representatives were not involved in drafting the amendment. One of the fundamental deficiencies of the new legal measure is that it applies not only to the use of the official language but even intervenes more deeply in public, commercial and private life. Another fundamental problem is that the State language law also includes sanctions. The amendment to the Slovak national language law is in breach of the basic human rights and standards of the European Union. Retaining the law in its present form would be contrary to the national interest of the Slovak Republic and the majority ethnic group because the law will provoke suspicions and poison the atmosphere of good relations between the ethnic groups that have lived together on the territory of Slovakia for more than a thousand years. Slovakia is a mature, grown-up and self-confident democratic country and is not dependent on cultural warfare, or on the use of law to defend itself against indigenous languages. The indigenous ethnic groups do not threaten Slovak nationhood, the Slovak language or the culture of the Slovak nation. On the contrary, the coexisting ethnic groups will enthusiastically and voluntarily protect, support and develop the Slovak language and its culture as long as there is a visible willingness on the part of the Slovak nation to protect, support and develop the languages and culture of the ethnic minorities."@en1
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