CAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 12 hours agoEU countries resist Spain on making Catalan official languagewww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down10
arrow-up154arrow-down1external-linkEU countries resist Spain on making Catalan official languagewww.politico.euCAVOK@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squareBlaze (he/him)@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 hours agoThe EU pays for translators for Irish, which has less than 2 millions L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language), Latvian with 1.5 millions speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language), Maltese with less than 600,000 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language). Why wouldn’t the EU pay for Catalan, which has 4 millions of L1 speakers, and 5 millions of L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language)? If the argument is “yes, but they are their own country”, then that’s just going to give ammunition to the Catalan independentists.
minus-squareObelix@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoThe argument seems to be “please, Spain, deal with your local seperatist movement without pushing those efforts and costs onto us”
The EU pays for translators for Irish, which has less than 2 millions L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language), Latvian with 1.5 millions speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language), Maltese with less than 600,000 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language).
Why wouldn’t the EU pay for Catalan, which has 4 millions of L1 speakers, and 5 millions of L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language)?
If the argument is “yes, but they are their own country”, then that’s just going to give ammunition to the Catalan independentists.
The argument seems to be “please, Spain, deal with your local seperatist movement without pushing those efforts and costs onto us”