The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision with recommendations to Ukraine as a result of urgent debates. This is reported by "European Truth". 82 deputies voted for the approval of the document with the amendments made to it, 11 voted against it, and 17 abstained. The Ukrainian delegation, with the exception of Mustafa Dzhemilev, voted against. The rapporteur, Andreas Herkel, who prepared the draft of the document, abstained because the amendments significantly changed its content. Amendments to the document were submitted exclusively by Hungarian and Romanian members of the assembly.

The decision of the PACE strongly condemns the fact that the Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on education, changing Article 7 (on the language of education) without consulting the representatives of national minorities. The Assembly also appealed to Ukraine to take into account all recommendations of the Venice Commission without exception, as well as to make appropriate changes to the law on education. Meanwhile, the PACE (contrary to the position of the rapporteur, Estonian Andreas Herkel) stated that even now, before the conclusion of "Venetianka", there are "a number of legal questions to the law".

In particular, Hungarians and Romanians opposed the idea of "mixed education", for example, teaching 60% subjects in Ukrainian, and 40% in the minority language. Also, all references to the fact that education "exclusively in the language of the minority" (without teaching part of the subjects in the state language) harms the children themselves by reducing their competitiveness in the labor market and making it more difficult to enter higher educational institutions have been removed from the document.

Only with a minimal margin (39 votes "against", 42 "for") was rejected the Hungarian amendment, according to which they wanted to delete from the document the reference to the right of Ukraine to protect the state language, as well as the fact that the language unites the state.

Similarly, with a slight advantage (37 to 40 votes), it was possible to reject the proposal of parliamentarians from Romania and Hungary, who sought to exclude from the document the mention of the absence of exclusively Ukrainian public schools (or with education exclusively in the languages of other minorities) in their states.

At the same time, Kyiv is recommended to adapt a separate method of teaching the Ukrainian language for children who are representatives of national minorities.