{"id":272410,"date":"2025-07-18T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272410\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:52:11","slug":"spain-shelves-eu-catalan-vote-again-amid-lack-of-support-%e2%94%81-the-european-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272410\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Shelves EU Catalan Vote Again Amid Lack of Support \u2501 The European Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s government has once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eldebate.com\/espana\/20250718\/gobierno-vuelve-fracasar-empeno-hacer-catalan-lengua-oficial-ue_318429.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">postponed<\/a> a vote on making Catalan, Basque, and Galician official EU languages, fearing defeat in Friday\u2019s General Affairs Council meeting. The proposal requires unanimous backing from all 27 EU members, but several countries remain opposed. As in May, Madrid pulled the plan at the last moment to avoid an embarrassing loss.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition centres on the legal precedent, costs\u2014despite Spain\u2019s offer to cover the estimated \u20ac132 million annually\u2014and doubts over feasibility without treaty changes. Luxembourg\u2019s foreign minister, Xavier Bettel, criticised the timing of the initiative, echoed by Poland and Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Fernando Sampedro urged EU partners not to \u201cdelay unnecessarily\u201d Spain\u2019s request. The government has already watered down its proposal, delaying implementation to 2027 and limiting translation obligations to just 3% of EU legislation. A recent Spanish memo outlined seven strict conditions to prevent other regional languages from making similar demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s government has once again postponed a vote on making Catalan, Basque, and Galician official EU languages, fearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-272410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114875043734316212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}