EU Ministers debate recognition of 3 additional Spanish languages – Burke

EU Ministers in Brussels have been discussing requests by Spain to make Catalan, Basque and Galician official EU languages.  

The Spanish government formally requested the EU to officially recognise the three languages, in August. And that request was considered today by the EU General Affairs Council which has been meeting in Brussels. Ireland’s EU Minister Peter Burke, who attended today’s meeting, said Ireland is in favour of “linguistic pluralism”. But he said more time is needed to evaluate the request.

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