The State Attorney's Office endorsed the fact that the acting government asked the EU to make Catalan, Basque and Galician official

MADRID, 18 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The State Advocacy informed the acting Government that the eventual request to the Council of the EU that Catalan, Basque and Galician become official languages ​​would not imply an excess of its tasks given the current circumstances, as confirmed to Europe Press government sources.

The Government previously consulted the State Attorney's Office before the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, sent a letter on Thursday with said request to the Presidency of the Council of the EU, which is precisely held by Spain at the moment, and to the general secretary of said body, Thérèse Blanchet.

From the State Attorney's Office, a favorable response was given since it was not considered to imply "an excess of the tasks attributed to the acting Government", the aforementioned sources have specified.

Article 21.3 of the Government Law specifies that the acting Executive, as is the case of the current one, "will limit its management to the ordinary dispatch of public affairs, refraining from adopting, except in duly accredited urgent cases or for reasons of general interest whose express accreditation justifies it, any other measures".

On the other hand, in its opinion, the State Attorney's Office indicated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headed by Albares "is the competent body to formulate the request, without prejudice to the powers that may correspond to the President of the Government or the Council of Ministers."

The Foreign Minister explained this Thursday in Congress, at the end of the constitutive session, that the request was part of the agreement reached with Junts for this formation to support the candidacy of the socialist Francina Armengol to preside over the Lower House and defended as " opportune" which would have been done at the start of the legislature.

Likewise, he denied that the fact that the Government had asked itself, since Spain is the country that holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU, constitutes "no anomaly" and in fact the legal services of both Council and the European Commission to confirm it.

In his letter, Albares specifically requests the inclusion of Catalan, Basque and Galician in the EU's linguistic regime, for which, as the minister himself admitted, the unanimity of the 27 member states is necessary.

He also requested that this issue be included in the agenda of the next General Affairs Council (GAC), to be held on September 19.

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. translated all EU legal documents and records.