Overview

• In an Onda Cero interview, José Manuel Albares confirmed Spain’s formal request to the EU covers Catalan, Basque and Galician, leaving out Valencian.
• Albares described the push as an “irreversible path,” noted that about ten million Europeans speak Catalan, and said the new Foreign Policy Strategy was translated into Catalan, Basque and Galician.
• He accused the PP of pressuring allied governments to block recognition and of slighting roughly 20% of Spaniards who use co-official languages.
• Valencian president Carlos Mazón demanded an immediate rectification and public apology, warning he will seek Albares’s resignation or dismissal if there is no change.
• Cultural group Lo Rat Penat condemned the exclusion, urged the inclusion of Valencian in the EU proposal, and called on the minister to apologize.