Is the EU posed to adopt three new official languages?

Might Catalan, Galician and Basque become EU official languages? That's what the president of Catalonia Salvador Illa is advocating in an interview with Euronews featured on today's Radio Schuman.

Illa visited Brussels last week, where he met with the President of the European Council, António Costa, and the Vice President of the European Commission, Teresa Ribera. A key priority on his agenda was advocating for the inclusion of Catalan, Basque, and Galician as official languages of the European Union.

The proposal requires unanimous approval from all 27 EU member states and is currently under discussion by European Affairs ministers. However, progress has been limited since Spain initially introduced the initiative during its rotating presidency in the summer of 2023.

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