74.1% of Ukrainians believe that men between the ages of 16 and 25 should be allowed to study abroad without hindrance, according to a survey conducted by the Ilk Kucheriv Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
In particular, when asked whether respondents agree or disagree with the statement that young men aged 16 to 25 should be freely released abroad to study in foreign secondary, vocational and higher educational institutions, 52.2% said they fully agree, 21.9% – mostly agree, 7.7% – mostly disagree, 10.7% – do not agree at all, and 7.5% found it difficult to answer.
The all-Ukrainian poll was conducted in the period from July 3 to July 17, 2023. A total of 2011 respondents aged 18 and older were interviewed by face-to-face method in the Ukrainian-controlled territories of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhya, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Lviv, Mykolayiv, Odessa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi regions and in Kyiv. The statistical error of the sample does not exceed 2.8%.
The European Commission intends to study and give its assessment to the law on the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said Maya Kocijancic, spokeswoman for High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the EU Commission Federica Mogherini.
We know that the Ukrainian parliament adopted a new law on language. Now we are waiting for the publication of the final version of this law in order to study its content, she stated at a briefing in Brussels on Friday.
At the same time, Kocijancic reminded that the EU constantly said that the Ukrainian authorities should send a law on language to be assessed by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe before it comes into force.
As reported, on April 25, the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, passed as a whole a draft law on the Ukrainian language, which provides for the mandatory use of the national language by government agencies, local self-government and in other spheres of public life. Corresponding bill No. 5670-d on ensuring the use of Ukrainian as the national language passed its the second reading and was generally supported by 278 lawmakers at a plenary session of the parliament on Thursday.
