The request of the Ministry of Education that in European schools students of Spanish origin can choose Catalan as an optional subject is, for the moment, postponed. These educational centers, present in several community countries, are institutions created by the EU for children of European officials or professionals in expatriates. Specifically there are 13 centers in 6 Member States (Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Germany, Italy and Spain)
According to community sources, they have informed this newspaper, the process was blocked yesterday after a letter was referred to the secretary general of European schools. Specifically and according to these sources, the text was signed by several Deputies of the European Parliamentamong them some French who oppose the inclusion of Catalan by similarity to the Sardinian language in Sardinia. In the letter the difficult legal lace that means including Catalan as optionalleaving out the Basque and the Galician, the other co -official languages of Spain.
The meeting in which this proposal was discussed yesterday attended representatives of the Ministries of Education of the Member States, of the Management Team of the European Schools, of the Associations of Parents of these Centers with Spanish Representation, and also a spokesman for the Commission European As this medium has been able to know, the Parent associations abstained at the meeting and The European Commission opposed. In this way, the future of this request is, for the moment, stagnant while studying the implications that are indicated in the letter and that could cause the measure.
As ABC said in its edition yesterday, the recognition of Catalan as an official language of the European Union is one of the commitments assumed by the PSOE with Junts in the investiture agreement of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The proposal that this autonomic language is studied as an optional subject The next 2025-2026 course in the European Schools network is interpreted as a “clear movement” of the socialist government to bring positions with the Carles Puigdemont party at a peak The negotiations, with the transfer of the competencies in substantive immigration. This was indicated by community sources consulted by this newspaper, which denounce the lack of legal solidity of the ministry’s proposal. “Legally something manipulated is raised, which is not real because Catalan is not the official language of the State, as it appears in the text promoted by the Ministry, but is a regional language.”
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As ABC said, the recognition of Catalan as an official language of the European Union is one of the commitments assumed by the PSOE with Junts in the investiture agreement of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The proposal that this autonomic language is studied as an optional subject The next 2025-2026 course in the European Schools network is interpreted as a “clear movement” of the socialist government to bring positions with the Carles Puigdemont party at a peak The negotiations, with the transfer of the competencies in substantive immigration. This was indicated by community sources consulted by this newspaper, which denounce the lack of legal solidity of the ministry’s proposal. “Legally something manipulated is raised, which is not real because Catalan is not the official language of the State, as it appears in the text promoted by the Ministry, but is a regional language.”
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