In response to questions from several Member States concerning Spain’s request to grant Catalan, Basque and Galician the status of official languages of the European Union, Spain proposed, on Tuesday 19 September, a gradual integration starting with Catalan (see EUROPE B13251A26).
“Today we have set in motion the reform of Regulation 1/58 governing the EU’s language regime”, said the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares Bueno, after the ‘General Affairs’...