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Catalan is spoken by millions of people in Spain (Photo: EUobserver)

Spain urges recognition of Catalan in EU

As the negotiations on the Constitution enter the final straight, another issue has been added to the long list of those that need to be dealt with - arranging a new status for other languages in the EU.

At a meeting of senior member state officials to discuss the draft Constitution in Dublin on Tuesday (4 May), Spain asked about "the status of Spanish languages other than Spanish".

With Catalan particularly in mind, but also other regional languages such as Basque and Galician, S...

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Catalan is spoken by millions of people in Spain (Photo: EUobserver)

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