After the General Affairs Council of the European Union has postponed the decision on the official status of Catalan in the community entity, the Government of the Generalitat and Junts per Catalunya have urged the PSOE and the acting Government of Pedro Sánchez to "comply "with the agreement for co-official languages to be official in the EU, although the independence movement recognizes that progress has already been made in this matter and the "effort" of Moncloa.
The spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, Patrícia Plaja, in the press conference after the meeting of the Consell Executiu, admitted this Tuesday that "one more step has been taken" so that Catalan can be used in European bodies. "We are not where we were," she conceded, although she warned that "the commitment is not yet a reality."
Plaja has pointed out that "all responsibility falls on the Spanish Government." "We demand that the Government do whatever is necessary to fulfill its commitments. It is obvious that the expected results have not been achieved. It is up to them to accelerate the issue of officialdom as much as possible as they have done other times when there was an aspect that interested them truth", considered the Government spokesperson, who believes that there are no real obstacles in the technical or regulatory field. "This is about politics," she concluded.
On behalf of JxCat, the leader of the training in Madrid, Míriam Nogueras, has expressed herself in the same sense, considering that today is a "historic" day after it was possible to speak in Catalan, Basque and Galician in the Congress of Deputies, during a plenary session. "Finally the rights of Catalan speakers will be respected," she stressed.
Regarding the community flank, the post-convergent leader has been convinced that "Catalan is much closer to being an official language in the European Union" now that it has already been placed "in the highest European authorities", in reference to the today's meeting held in Brussels. Likewise, Nogueras has recognized the "effort" of the acting central Executive, specifically the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares. "It is a process that has no turning back. We will see what the capacity of the PSOE is to comply with the agreements," he pointed out in an intervention before the press in which he stated that we have already reached "where we have never been before" in regarding the use of Catalan in institutions.
Furthermore, Nogueras has announced that he will no longer speak in Spanish in the Lower House, neither at the lectern in the chamber nor in the press room. Her group, however, will provide the press with a translation of the spokesperson's interventions.
