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EU Council Tackles Post-2027 Budget and Spanish Language Push

Brussels, July 18, 2025 – European Union ministers gathered today in Brussels for the General Affairs Council meeting to address two significant agenda items that could shape the bloc’s future: the Commission’s first proposals for the EU’s post-2027 long-term budget and Spain’s persistent campaign to elevate Catalan, Basque, and Galician to official EU languages. Budget […]

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The newly elected Deputy Secretary for Sectoral Coordination of the PP, Alma Ezcurra, charged against the government of Pedro Sánchez for leading Spain to a "new international ridicule" in urging Europe to recognize the officialness of Catalan, Basque and Galician. Before even the Community partners rejected this request, the MEP had already called it "a new ridicule" when she heard statements against this measure made by several European minist…

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The latest Spanish proposal to formalise Catalan, Basque and Galician in the EU is a suit made so tailored to Spanish uniqueness that little more and seams break out. Still, several Member States — and they are not just one, nor two, when this requires unanimity — continue to say they have doubts. The Spanish request that their co-official languages become official languages of the EU, which have been endorsed by the Catalan, Salvador Illa, and …

·Spain
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Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Córdoba (Spain), Nuria Magaldi-Mendaña has for years focused her research on the guarantee of the rule of law and judicial independence in the European Union, the legal regime of public services and the linguistic rights of citizens. From the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament, the jurist, who took a doctorate at the University of Barcelona (UB) and lived for years in Catalonia,…

·Spain
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The President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the Lehendakari Imanol Pradales join efforts to bend the resistance of the European Union to recognize Catalan, the...

·Madrid, Spain
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“Europe is not there to pay for the blackmail of independence partners,” they point out from the People's Party. For his part, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, insists that “they will not stop” until they achieve the official status of Catalan. Follow all the news from this Friday, July 18, 2025 live.

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The European Union's General Affairs meeting is taking place this Friday. Spain wants to include the official status of Catalan, Basque and Galician. European ministers have made it clear that it is premature to take a decision because there are "many doubts" about the impact it would have on the whole of the Union.It will not be put to the voteThe Danish Minister for European Affairs, Marie Bjerre, says that she does not see the issue put to th…

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