Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-10-07-Speech-3-195"
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"I would like to mention the Slovak language law, which has raised grave concerns ever since its approval. The past few weeks have shown that these concerns were justified because, although the penalties prescribed in this law have not yet been applied, government employees have been ordered to speak only Slovak. This means that during working hours, postal workers, fire fighters and police officers whose mother tongue is Hungarian are not allowed to use their own language.
Therefore, if I speak Hungarian to a policeman in Slovakia, he is obliged to answer me in Slovak, even if Hungarian is his mother tongue, and regardless of the fact that I do not understand his reply. Incidentally, the situation is the same if I try to speak in English. I would like to suggest a new advertising message for the Slovak hospitality sector: we love having foreign tourists in Slovakia, provided that they learn Slovak before they set foot in our country. Welcome to Absurdistan!"@en1
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