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The Council receives the request from Spain for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be official languages ​​of the EU

BRUSSELS, 17 Aug.

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The Council receives the request from Spain for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be official languages ​​of the EU

BRUSSELS, 17 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Council of the European Union has confirmed this Thursday that it has received the request from the Government of Spain for Catalan, Basque and Galician to be recognized as official languages ​​of the Union and is already studying the demand.

European sources confirm to Europa Press that the European institution, which brings together the Twenty-seven Member States, has received the letter from the Spanish Government and "will study it". The petition, as indicated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has been produced by virtue of the agreement reached with Junts to support the candidacy of the socialist Francina Armengol to preside over the Lower House.

In its letter, the Government has requested that this issue be included as an item on the agenda at the meeting of the General Affairs Council (CAG) on September 19. Made up of the ministers for European Affairs of all the EU Member States, this forum is in charge of transversal issues of the Union and the institutional structure of the bloc.

The inclusion of the three languages ​​will go to said meeting, as Spain has complied with the deadlines of the Council regulation, diplomatic sources indicate, for which reason the European ministers will already take a position on the proposal in September.

The regulation that regulates the linguistic regime dates from 1958 and has been amended with the successive enlargements of the EU, going from four official languages ​​at first -Dutch, French, German and Italian- to the current 24. Any change to this regulation must be decided unanimously by the Member States.

The last language to be incorporated was Croatian in 2013, with the entry of this country into the EU, while Gaelic is the only co-official language that has been recognized among the official ones of the EU to date. Its inclusion took place after Ireland's entry into the bloc in 1973, making it the most similar case to what Spain now presents with Catalan, Basque and Galician.

Formally, the Gaelic language received the status of official and working language of the EU in 2007, two years after Dublin requested it, although exceptions and a transition period were maintained due to the lack of technical means and until 2022 they have not been seen. All EU*legal*registries and documents translated.

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