The Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union presented to the ‘Foreign Affairs’ Council, on Wednesday 15 November, Spain’s request to grant Catalan, Basque and Galician the status of ‘official languages of the EU’ (see EUROPE B13278A16).
This request was the subject of a revised legislative proposal envisaging a gradual process, starting with Catalan. Other elements aim to specify the particularity of the Spanish application so that it does not give rise to similar...