Prime Minister Vlad Filat requested Minister of Education Maia Sandu to work out a plan of action concerning the studying of the official language by national minorities. The Romanian language courses will be financed from the state budget, starting with next year, Info-Prim Neo reports. The request was made in the context in which the Government didn’t approve of the legislative initiative of a group of MPs, under which the employees of companies with majority state capital should be obliged to study the official language. Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Valentina Buliga said the proposals of the bill authors are not within the remit of the Labor Code. There are other laws that make knowledge of the official language obligatory. Besides, the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights provides that all the persons have the right to work, regardless of race, color, sex, language, and religion. The Government also rejected the initiative concerning the obligation for candidates for MP to know the official language. It explained that this provision is found in other laws. Several members of the Cabinet said yet that it’s not normal to live in Moldova and not to know the official language, while the president of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Gheorghe Duca stated that measures should be taken to organize the studying of the official language by national minorities. Asked by journalists, the Governor of Gagauzia Mihail Formuzal admitted that he does not speak the official language well, but argued that he speaks only Russian and Gagauzian with the citizens in the autonomous unit.