Most of last year's new regulations compel the exclusive use of the Spanish language in documents to be presented to the Administration. Since 2014, 297 regulations have been approved that discriminate against the Catalan language. More info about "93 regulations approved in 2017 impose Spanish over other languages"
Plataforma per la Llengua has actively participated in the collection of signatures for the initiative and considers the measures proposed in it as a step forward for the juridical situation of Catalan language in the EU. However, the head of international relations for the organization, Marga Payola, pointed out that "the Catalan language, with 10 million speakers, is the fourteenth most spoken language in the European Union, which means that the only acceptable legal status for the language is complete official status within the EU." More info about "More than 1.200.000 signatures for the protection of European minoritized languages"
Increasingly more and more Members of the European Parliament are supporting the normalization of the use of the fourteenth European language in number of speakers in the Chamber, a measure that would not generate any additional costs More info about "21 Members of the European Parliament insist that it depends only on Tajani to make it possible to speak Catalan in the European Parliament"
Citizens should be treated by member states equally regardless of language, says president of Plataforma per la Llengua (by ACN Barcelona) More info about "European Citizens' Initiative aims to make Catalan official in EU"
"The European Union says that language competences are an exclusive competence of the Member States, who do whatever they want to do. The European Unio's slogan, 'United in diversity' is a nice one, but it remains empty words until nothing concrete is undertaken to protect regional and minority languages. More info about "Minority SafePack: all European languages should be equal"
Plataforma per la llengua presents the Report on Language Immersion in Catalonia, an explanatory and comparative study of a successful model in the use of the Catalan language as a tool for social cohesion. More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua presents the Report on Language Immersion in Catalonia"
Following the instructions to include Spanish in the signage and corporate image of the European Parliament Information Office in Barcelona, the Catalan language NGO has sent a letter to Mr. Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament, calling upon him to guarantee linguistic equality between Catalan, Occitan and Spanish in the European Union and in the other EU institutions. More info about "La Plataforma per la Llengua calls upon the President of the European Parliament to take measures to support linguistic rights"
La Plataforma per la Llengua would like to express its satisfaction with the results of the elections to the Catalan Parliament on 21 December. More info about "We celebrate the victory"
The Catalan NGO issues a call to support this citizens' initiative to call upon the European institutions to legislate for non-official European Union languages More info about "La Plataforma per la Llengua supports the “Minority Safepack” European Legislative Initiative"
La Plataforma per la Llengua presents Welcome, a leaflet intended for Erasmus students that come to study in Catalan universities. The document contains basic information about the language, as well as the main reasons for learning Catalan and some of its most colloquial expressions. More info about "Welcome, a leaflet for Erasmus students in Catalonia"
