The former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont valued this Tuesday the work of the acting central government, specifically the work of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, to make Catalan official in the European Union (EU) while warning that the steps that have been taken so far are not “sufficient.”
In a video, the independence leader, who does not hold any organic position in Junts per Catalunya but is the one who leads his party in the negotiations with the PSOE for the investiture of the next central executive, has celebrated that no Member State has vetoed the proposal promoted by the Government of Spain at the meeting of the General Affairs Council of the EU so that Catalan can be used in the European institutions. However, he has assessed that the steps taken are not enough.
“That no State has vetoed the proposal is good news, but it is not enough. The Spanish State knows this, it knows that it has work to do and that it has to do it diligently because the opportunity is now,” said the former president. “Today we have verified that Spain is not making itself heard as much in Europe as Pedro Sánchez claimed. But it is also true that we have never come this far and never before have so many EU countries shown themselves in favor,” Puigdemont conceded.
Along the same lines, the leader of JxCat in Madrid, Míriam Nogueras, had also thanked this morning from the Congress of Deputies for Albares’ efforts and had remained expectant to see the “capacity” of the PSOE to comply with the agreements. assumed.
Puigdemont has also pointed out that the path to making Catalan official should be “irreversible” and without having to wait long. “We have waited long enough,” he concluded.
On the part of the Government, the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has described as “bittersweet” that Catalan, Galician and Basque can be spoken in the Congress of Deputies while in Brussels we will have to “continue fighting” for Catalan to be official. “It is evident that the role of the Spanish Government has been insufficient. As always, it arrives late and poorly,” he considered.
In turn, the spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, Patría Plaja, who has admitted that “steps have been taken”, has stressed that “the commitment is not yet a reality” and that it is the “responsibility” of the Spanish Government that the Catalan employ in the EU.
