On Tuesday 24 October, Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, welcomed the “decisive advances” made in his country’s request for Catalan, Galician and Basque to be granted the status of official languages of the European Union (see EUROPE B13253A22).
At the end of the round-table discussion on the issue, which took place during the ‘General Affairs’ Council, he noted “no opposition from any Member State” to the subsequent presentation of a request...