A European Commission decision to reshuffle translators continues to aggravate Spanish MEPs, who say the move is political and goes against EU interests while the commission argues the matter is strictly organisational.
In a letter to education commissioner Jan Figel, Spanish socialist MEP Carlos Carnero Gonzalez points out that under the new deal, Spanish will be the most punished of all the 20 official community languages and evidently inferior to English, French and German.
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