The European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions has sent a letter to the Minister of Education of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Esther Niubó (PSC), to find out how it applies the recommendations included in the report of the mission which visited Catalan schools in March and which put an end to compulsory language immersion. Furthermore, the European Parliament will send the final report of the mission to the Council of Europe so that this body is aware of the reality of the community’s classrooms.
🔊The European Parliament sends a letter to the Catalan Minister of Education @eniubo. The objective is to know how the recommendations of the European mission which visited Catalonia are applied.
🔊The final report of the Committee on Petitions will also be sent to the Council of Europe pic.twitter.com/GsjyZgEU4D
– AEB Catalunya (@AEBCatalunya) November 7, 2024
At its meeting at the beginning of last month, the Committee on Petitions approved the sending of the letter to Niubó to find out if the Generalitat implements the recommendations, which fundamentally coincide with what has been established by the courts of justice, which since then years require autonomous authorities the administration respects the legal norms based on the Constitution and which must be implemented a system of linguistic conjunction or bilingualism, instead of the compulsory Catalan immersion system for all students.
After learning about the letter, Ana Losada, president of the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB), one of the entities that advises parents who request bilingualism for their children, told ABC that they are “waiting” for the response that Niubó can give to Europe , especially because the Generalitat, now in the hands of the PSC under the control of Salvador Illa, continues to implement mandatory language immersion system-wide.
“The recommendations of the European mission responded to discrimination against Spanish-speaking students and non-compliance with current legislation,” recalled Losada. In this sense, the Constitutional Court is waiting to determine whether the legislative trick of the Generalitat, approved under the mandate of Father Aragonès (ERC) with the support of the CPS and the Commons, in addition to the Junts, it is legal.
