Then again surely meeting an acceptable level of English is a requirement for all Air Traffic Controllers new or old. It is a safety issue, not an issue of shafting people. If you can't speak English how on earth can you do your job up to an acceptable standard when having to communicate in English to International flights
Just to clarify, I didn't read the first post as being due to admin problems or red tape, my reading of it was they have not been able to get the existing controllers up to a standard of English that meets the level 4 ICAO standard. If that is the case, as I said it is a safety issue and therefore they should not be working international traffic until they meet that standard.