Overview

• Luis García Montero used a Nueva Economía Fórum event to accuse RAE head Santiago Muñoz Machado of handling business for multimillion‑euro companies from his academy office.
• He denounced what he called the academy’s closed‑mindedness toward recognizing the richness of Spanish and Spain’s other state languages, urging respect for each institution’s independence.
• Defending recognition of Catalan and Basque in Brussels, García Montero argued that patriots should uphold Spain’s linguistic diversity rather than disparage it in European forums.
• He also linked those who refuse to condemn the alleged genocide in Gaza with political efforts to dismantle public healthcare in Andalucía and Madrid for private gain, framing the issue as a moral stance.
• The X International Congress of the Spanish Language is set for Oct. 14–17 in Arequipa, co‑organized by the RAE, Instituto Cervantes and ASALE, with more than 260 participants and King Felipe VI expected, and no response from the RAE was reported.