Overview

• Esther Niubó said disobeying court rulings is never the answer and reiterated confidence in the current legal framework for school language use.
• The Generalitat will appeal the TSJC decision that partially annulled the linguistic decree, and schools do not need to change anything because that decree never took effect.
• The law approved by PSC, ERC, Junts, and Comuns makes Catalan the vehicular language and grants Spanish a curricular role that can expand based on each school’s sociolinguistic context and student results.
• Niubó said that if the Constitutional Court upholds the law, the government plans a new decree to spell out linguistic project details and criteria for language presence in classrooms.
• The minister cited operational progress in vocational training, reporting more than 81,000 placements this year and a 17% rise in ordinary allocations after publishing a vacancies map that enabled thousands to enroll.