Catalan in Congress - now an official language, could the EU be next?
Durada: 23 min
07/10/2023
As of September 19, Spanish MPs can address Congress in Catalan for the first time ever - as well as Basque and Galician. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez agreed to pro-independence parties' demands to grant these three languages official parliamentary status. Some see it as a move towards a more plural and multilingual Spain. The next step is the European Union - where Catalan could become the 25th official language there. Oscar Escuder from the Catalan language NGO Plataforma per la Llengua and Vincent Climent Ferrando, translation and language science professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, talk to us about the campaign to get Catalan approved and what this could mean for other minority languages across the European bloc. This week's Catalan phrase is "de mica en mica, s'omple la pica." Literally, it's translated into "little by little, the sink fills up," and it refers to taking things one step at a time. Presented by Lucía Benavides with Lorcan Doherty and Lea Beliaeva.