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    I paesi dell’UE resistono alla Spagna per creare una lingua ufficiale catalana

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    1. volcanoesarecool on

      It’s so dumb. Every country gets one language.

      Edit: in case it’s not clear, as an EU official language. There’s 200-300 languages spoken in Europe, it would be ridiculous to have them all as official EU languages. The whole ask from Junts is a ridiculous one, they’ve asked for something impossible for political power, and this tour lobbying for Catalan, Galician etc to be added as official EU languages is a charade.

    2. _marcoos on

      I mean, if Spain can do this, others should also be able to do the same.

      Just Poland would add Kashubian, Rusyn, Silesian, Tatar and [Karaim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaim_language) to the mix. Let thousands of languages bloom. 🙂

      And in case of Karaim, it would be [Poland’s variant of Karaim](https://www.gov.pl/attachment/eb44b69e-3a26-49a7-addd-dc6cae0716a4), not the Crimean nor Lithuanian one. Lithuania can request their own Trakai-Karaim, I guess.

    3. valkyreistar on

      Let everyone learn English and don’t teach other languages to unite the world.

    4. Typical-Rule97 on

      I supose catalans should be exempt from taxes then.
      Their votes are worth nothing. 
      Their elected jailed. 
      Their language is not official, not even in Madrid. 

      Why would they need to pay taxes? 
      Or do they need to have a terrorist organisation, be independent, and finally be respected, EU would accept their language as official, and then they can pay taxes. 

      Otherwise feels like a bit of modern slavery because they are not protesting hard enough. 

    5. retarded-_-boi on

      We should recognize all natives languages of Europe, and people will finally see how diverse we are.

    6. ForeignExpression on

      Is this sill on the EU’s part. It’s core strength is it’s inclusivity. If it gives up that, everything is lost. Basque is a total unique inception of language and should be treasured in Europe, it is crazy that it would not be protected.

    7. Dinosaurier_Blondine on

      Time to use Latin again as lingua franca of Europe

    8. Ja_Shi on

      I know I’m gonna piss off a lot of people, but I don’t think recognizing regional languages is a good idea. It’s one of the foundations for secessionist thought, which make everyone worse off. Culture is fine, but is it worth risking national unity? I don’t think so.

    9. Brave-Two372 on

      Let’s use one language (I don’t care what it is) and provide automatic translations to all other languages, regardless of whether there are 28 or 100 of them. Auto translations are of good enough quality to serve as reference document.

    10. Great-Ass on

      let me think about this

      Central gov is not interested in making catalan an official EU language, because votes

      Catalan politicians are interested because votes

      Central Gov needs separatists to approve laws

      They make a deal and Central gov promises to help with catalan

      Pedro pushes catalan as an official EU language

      Spain asks other EU countries to say no to their own proposal to mantain separatist support (they save face, they tried, it’s not their fault)

      Everybody earns votes even though nobody did anything. Catalan politicians get credit for ‘convincing’ the central gov, the central gov doesn’t accomplish something they don’t want while they save face

      This is my theory

    11. Inevitable-Push-8061 on

      Turkish is technically one of the two official languages of the Republic of Cyprus and holds the same status as Greek. It is official throughout the entire island, yet it is not recognized as an official EU language. Turkish should also be recognized as an official EU language.

    12. DonQuigleone on

      Personally, I think the system of official EU languages need to be reformed. I think there should be more of an effort to trim down the number of official languages and hence number of copies in different languages that need to be maintained.

      Personally, I think the EU should switch to one official language OR something trimmed down. For example, I think it’s a waste of resources that EU documents have to be translated into Irish (my language), or a handful of balkan variations of serbo-croatian where one would suffice. 

    13. Personal_Gold_743 on

      Cost is not an issue:

      >Madrid has vowed to foot the bill for the potentially millions of euros to add the languages into the EU’s translation and interpretation framework.

      And hundreds of r/Europe redditors are so trigger happy to criticise France for its repressive linguistic policies, but when France and Italy (European countries that are hardly known for their wonderful treatment of linguistic minorities) oppose the officialisation of more European languages, *then* you guys are all on board?

      >Political factors are also a major consideration. France, for instance, has a national policy against the recognition of domestic minority languages like Basque, Breton and Corsican.

      That’s right, France doesn’t want Spain to do it because it doesn’t want to look “bad” for being one of the worst countries in Europe with regards to linguistic minority rights.

      And now we see how false the European motto is.

      “Unity in diversity”, what a joke. If you don’t believe it, change it.

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