The Spanish request to grant Catalan, Basque and Galician the status of official languages of the European Union is not, at this stage, on the agenda of a meeting of the General Affairs Council under the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council (see EUROPE B13293A26).
Last November, Spain submitted a legislative proposal revising Regulation 1/1958 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community. It lists, in an appendix, the reasons why its request is specific,...