EU Postpones Spain Language Decision Again
Almost two years after the first formal petition, Spain once again pushed for its three co-official languages, Catalan, Basque, and Galician, to be added as official languages within the European Union (EU). On May 27, 2025, the EU postponed any decision on the matter for a second time. The first time the proposal was rejected was in September 2023, a little over a month after the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, requested for the Council of the European Union to include the languages. At the time, Spain presided over the EU government, which communicated that it had discussed the matter but needed more information, and deferred making a decision on whether to bring it to a vote. This time, with Poland in the presidency, the EU has once again postponed any decision on the matter after at least ten countries, including Finland, Italy, and Germany, threatened to reject the proposal if it was brought to a vote. Swede...