The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, announced this Thursday a “new offensive” for the recognition of Catalan in the EU. And he has done it from the University of Bologna, one of the last stages of his institutional trip to Emilia-Romagna. Everything comes before the important meeting on October 24 of the European Council in which this issue will be debated, one of Junts’ conditions to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
As the president explained, the offensive will begin next week and will have three fronts. The first will be carried out by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Meritxell Serret, who accompanied Aragonès to Emilia-Romagna. Serret will meet on October 16 and 17 in Madrid with ambassadors from the different Member States to address the matter. The second front is carried out by the Generalitat delegation in Brussels, which plans to meet with the representations of the different States; and the third, the other Government delegations in Europe, with open contacts with States to try to convince both them and public opinion.
“Catalan is one of the languages ??with the most speakers that does not have this official status,” recalled the president, who hopes that this step will arrive before the end of the year, coinciding with the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU.
The Government has also already sent a translated argument to the 27 member states to resolve any doubts. For example, according to some fragments to which this newspaper has had access, they say that there are more than 200 radio stations that broadcast in Catalan, that it can be studied in 150 universities around the world or that it has a wide cultural production, comparable to that of languages ??of similar dimensions such as Norwegian or Danish.
The president returns this Thursday afternoon to Catalonia after two days of official travel in Emilia-Romagna, in which in addition to meeting with the regional president, Stefano Bonaccini, he also met with the former Italian prime minister and former president of the European Commission Romano Prodi, to whom he gave a copy of Incerta glòria translated into Italian. Today he met, together with Serret, with the rector of the University of Bologna, Giovanni Molari, and also visited the Policlinico Sant’Orsola hospital to learn about technological and innovation projects applied to healthcare. The councilor then continued the trip to Florence to hold a meeting with the advisor for relations with the EU of the Tuscan government, Alessandra Nardini.
