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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13234

24 August 2023
INSTITUTIONAL / Multilingualism
Madrid wants EU Council to examine its request for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be granted official EU language status on 19 September
Brussels, 23/08/2023 (Agence Europe)

On Tuesday 19 September in Brussels, the ‘General Affairs’ Council may examine the Spanish government’s official request for recognition of the Catalan, Basque and Galician languages as official languages of the European Union.

On Thursday 17 August, the Spanish authorities sent a letter to the Presidency of the EU Council, i.e. Spain itself, formally asking the Member States to add Spain’s three regional languages to the EU’s language regime.

On the same day, the Spanish...

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