The government wants to maintain the question of how the official of the Catalan, Basky and Galician in the EU, who is one of the obligations achieved by Pedro Sanchez with Karl Puigdemon for his investments, but the case reserves struggles in which there is still a dozen countries. Spain asked for this issue to be on the agenda of the next council for general cases, which will be held in Brussels on July 18, but the Danish presidency reduced expectations, introducing it only as a point for debates, and not for adoption.
In the Danish presidency, they do not see that progress was achieved last month to approve the measure that requires the unanimity of the member states. Consequently, a change in the rules, including three languages in the official EU EU catalog, is limited by “exchanging views”.
The last time the problem was in the table of EU ministers was introduced for adoption. Nevertheless, several countries demonstrated the unwillingness of the approval of this initiative, and the government was forced to take on failure. The decision remained in May, therefore, postponed. Now this issue is resurrected, but Denmark did not want to give expectations regarding the statement again.
“I have not seen any changes since we are discussing them,” said the Danish Minister of European Affairs Marie Bierre last week in statements by reporters collected by EFE agency.
The countries who opposed the greater severity for the official of Catalan, Basque and Galician are Germany, Italy, Finland, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Sweden. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said before the aggravation that will contact his colleagues in order to try to convince them to the measure, which, according to him, is exceptional to Spain and means that it corresponds to “national identity”.
In addition, the legal services of the institution put Pegas in the adoption of this proposal, given that the change in regulation to expand the catalog of official languages (which is currently 24) requires a change in the EU operating contract.
