At the General Affairs Council on Tuesday 19 September, European Ministers will examine a Spanish request to amend Regulation 1/1958 to include Catalan, Basque and Galician in the EU’s language regime. However, no vote will be taken at this Council meeting.
This Regulation determines the language regime to be used in the European Economic Community.
To be validated, this request must be approved unanimously by the EU Council, which seems highly unlikely at this stage. A number of Member...