The organisation celebrates the letter from Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares asking for the reform of Regulation No. 1 of 1958 but urges caution because of all the unknowns waiting to be resolved More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua urges the Spanish government to make public the memorandum it will present to the EU Council asking for Catalan to be made official"

The Catalan NGO makes a projection on the facade of Barcelona City Hall asking the mayor if he will request official status for Catalan in the EU, as he has said he would several times in his socialist party's election manifesto

The president of Plataforma per la Llengua sent a letter to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez last Wednesday calling on him, as president of the Council of the European Union until the end of the year, to ask that Catalan be added to its list of official languages More info about "We ask Mayor Collboni: “Will you ask the European Union to make Catalan official?”"

The president of Plataforma per la Llengua, Òscar Escuder, is writing to the Spanish Prime Minister now because Spain holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, which happens only once every 13 years or so

"From today until the day of the Spanish General Election, there will be five meetings in the context of the Spanish presidency of the EU. These are five opportunities to raise the official status of Catalan: we ask you to take advantage of them," says Escuder in the letter

The Catalan NGO has secured confirmation from the Council of the European Union that the Spanish government has never requested that Catalan should become an official European Union language More info about "We are sending a letter to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to request the recognition of Catalan as an official European Union language"

In a coordinated initiative between Plataforma per la Llengua and Irish MEP Chris MacManus, the Council of the European Union confirms in writing that it has never been requested by this institution to make Catalan an official language in the EU

The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs had stated at the end of last year that the Zapatero government had requested the official status of Catalan and that this was not possible because it required treaty reform More info about "The Council of the EU refutes the Spanish government and confirms that Spain has never requested Catalan to be official in Europe"

Mireia Plana, vice-president of the organisation, says: "There are nine meetings as President of the Council from next Saturday, when it begins, until 23 July, and that means nine opportunities to request the reform of the Council Regulation that establishes the official languages"

The event "Catalan, 25^th Official EU Language" has set out the consequences for the Catalan language of not being official in the European Union and the importance of making a great effort to press this cause just before Spain takes on the rotating presidency of the Union in July

Antoni Bassas, a journalist with a long career in international politics; Narcís Mir, jurist and the Catalan government's head of monitoring EU regulations, and Halldor Mar, a singer-songwriter known for his TV appearances in the programme Katalonski, have taken part in an event led by journalist Magda Gregori More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua asks the Spanish government to make Catalan official in the EU before the elections"

Maria de Lluc Muñoz, international officer for Plataforma per la Llengua, attends the annual general assembly of the NPLD last Thursday and Friday in Rennes, Brittany

The NPLD is a European network of governments, academic institutions and civil society organisations aiming to achieve language policies that promote diversity More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua, re-elected as a member of the steering committee of the European Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity"

The Belgian courts are investigating the facts reported in the criminal complaint presented by Plataforma per la Llengua based on an expert report which reveals that various members of the NGO have had their mobile phones infected with cyberespionage software

Because some of the spying victims live in Brussels, we have been able to take the case to the Belgian courts, which will have to investigate whether the Spanish State has ignored the legal procedures for tapping telephones in other European States, and demand that it identifies those responsible for the espionage  

Spying on the Catalan NGO is a violation of the individual rights of people who have made a voluntary commitment to defend the Catalan language, and it proves that language continues to be one of the Spanish State's main battlegrounds More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua makes a criminal complaint against the Spanish State for spying on us via the mobile phones of members of our executive board"

The summit had four working parties that included experts on each particular topic

The participants visited the gipsy community in the higher part of Tarragona and the Altafulla castellers, and were able to enjoy cultural tourism in both places More info about "Catalonia hosts the annual meeting of FUEN’s Non-Kin-State working group"

Plataforma per la Llengua proposed Altafulla to host the annual meeting of this working group of FUEN, one of the main networks defending national and language minorities, and it will act as the host organisation

The meeting will be held on the first and second of June and its main theme will be the presence of minority languages in public services and new technologies More info about "The European network FUEN chooses Catalonia to host the meeting of the Non-Kin State working group of nations and minorities without a state"

The Administrative Court of Montpellier, in a supremacist decision, has ordered that French should take precedence over Catalan

Our organisation urges the French government to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) and to make Catalan official in Northern Catalonia, calling for international protection against this violation of language rights  More info about "We denounce the fact that the French judicial system has relegated Catalan to secondary use in municipal council meetings"