PNV deputy Aitor Esteban explained in “Ganbara” that the Foreign Minister called him by telephone to clarify the controversy that arose after he declared that Sánchez’s executive would give priority to Catalan over Basque and Galician .
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Spain, José Manuel Albarescalled the PNV spokesperson in Congress by telephone, Aitor Estebanto assure you that the request to make Basque, Catalan and Galician official in Europe is intended “the three languages together”.
Albares thus corrects his own statements from yesterday, when he stated that the Executive of Pedro Sánchez I would prioritize achieving official Catalan status in Europe about Basque and Galician.
Interviewed about the program “Ganbara” from Radio Euskadi, Esteban explained that Albares told him that the resolution adopted after the minister’s statements “does not refer to that priority, and he assures me that what is now starting is a period of legal examination of a single report with the three languages, and then we would move into an implementation phase.
“The request and authorization are for the three languages together, and The investigation by the European authorities concerns the three languages togetherthat’s what he assured me,” he added.
The minister’s first statements caused great discomfort PNV and EH Bilduand in fact the Basque government has sent a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressing its displeasure.
That same afternoon, the lehendakari, Inigo Urkulluhas criticized the fact that prioritizing Catalan over Basque was a “politically motivated” decision and has demanded an “equal defense” of the state’s official languages.
Source: EITB
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