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Spain has used the EU Council presidency to put on the agenda a debate to make Catalan, Basque and Galician an official EU language (Photo: European Union)

Spain's EU-language bid and UN summit This WEEK

EU ministers in charge of European affairs will gather in Brussels on Tuesday (19 October) to prepare for the next summit of EU leaders in October. They will also discuss the latest European Commission's rule-of-law report.

Spain, which currently holds the rotating EU presidency, has put a debate on the agenda over its official request to make Catalan, Basque, and Galician into official EU languages.

If successful, such a decision would help prime minister Pedro Sánchez to secur...

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

Spain has used the EU Council presidency to put on the agenda a debate to make Catalan, Basque and Galician an official EU language (Photo: European Union)

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Elena is EUobserver's Managing Editor. She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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