Doubts Catalan will be recognised as an official language

The Minister of Foreign Action and EU of the Catalonia Government, Meritxell Serret, has expressed her doubts that the General Affairs Council of the EU will recognise the official status of Catalan at the meeting today, Tuesday. “I don’t know to what extent we can be optimistic,” she said from Brussels.

Serret explained that some States still have practical, economic and legal doubts and that what the Catalan Government wants is to dispel these doubts.

The Catalan politician has referred to this issue during the presentation she carried out in Brussels of the advertising campaign to defend the official status of Catalan in the EU. Asked if the campaign could lead to other demands for EU languages, Serret responded that the Government has always claimed that Catalan is an official language in the State and that it is a “solid” and very structured language.

“Legally we have a status, we have all the capacity to take on the challenge of official status and it is a demand with all the necessary political and social support and consensus,” she added.

Under the motto ‘If all languages ​​are exceptional, let none be an exception in Europe’, the campaign is based on a website where “different reasons in favour” of Catalan being an official language in the EU will be presented in video versions in the 24 official languages, and a poster on public roads and in paper and digital media, was finalised at a press conference in Brussels.

The councillor has said that the Government gives up the rights to the campaign so that European citizens “share the pride they feel in their languages ​​and, above all, in the linguistic wealth of Europe.” “We have tried to make it a special campaign, not a conventional campaign, because what we want is, obviously, to draw the attention of citizens,” she explained.

Both the videos and the advertising poster direct viewers to the website europaencatala.eu, where the Government presents the main reasons in favour of the official status of Catalan “with an eye on” October 24, when the Council will meet. EU General Affairs Council with the debate on the official status of Catalan, Basque and Galician on the table.

The first advertisements have been placed in the Metro stations of the European quarter of Brussels and can also be seen on the streets of Paris, Strasbourg, Rome, Dublin, and Berlin, reports the Government.

Advertisements were also planned to be published in print media in Finland (Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet), Cyprus (Reporter), Sweden (Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter), Denmark (Politiken and Berlingske), Ireland (The Irish Times), Poland (Wprost ), Bulgaria (Vesti), Czech Republic (Lidové Noviny), Greece (Protothema), and Portugal (Expresso and Público).

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