Request comes as Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez courts Catalan parties to form parliament majority
Basque, which is estimated to have 750,000 speakers in Spain, and Galician, which has about two million, made their debuts in Spain’s national parliament on Tuesday as simultaneous interpreters were brought in and headphones installed to allow for multilingual debate.
To become official EU languages they require the unanimous support of all 27 member states. When the matter was discussed on Tuesday, several had reservations. The costs incurred in translation for the three languages “would be a substantial bill”, he added, though Spain had offered to pay.“Ireland’s position is very clear that we very much are in favour of linguistic pluralism,” Mr Burke said. “However, in this case, many of the colleagues around the table were of the view that they need an impact assessment and more time is needed to evaluate.”
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