EU brings debate on official nature of Catalan to Council on 19 September

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On 17 August, the government headed by incumbent Pedro Sánchez announced its intention to start the process in Germany. General Affairs Council (CAG) of the European Union edit 1/58 organizer EU language regime and include CatalanBasque and Galician as official languages. The first debate at ministerial level for European affairs will take place on 19 September. The agenda of the meeting includes the presentation, exchange and acceptance of Spain on the subject.

“The topic has been added to the CAG agenda, with objectives announced by Spain, such as presentation, exchange of ideas and acceptance. Council sources said, “As usual, the Permanent Representatives Committee Coreper, which brings together 27 ambassadors, will prepare this issue before the Council meeting.” 27 ambassadors It lays the groundwork for EU decisions.

While the title of the meeting includes the word “adoption”, there is currently no presentation on this week’s Coreper agenda regarding the foreign minister’s August 17 initiative, but there is still time and it needs to happen. At the meeting to be held next week, it will be decided how the files will be handled, although this corresponds to the Spanish presidency of the EU, which is responsible for setting the agenda for this period. In any event, any decision in this area will require the unanimity of the Twenty-seven Member States.

Regulation currently regulating the EU’s language regime 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish.

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