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"Question No. 6 by María Badía i Cutchet ()
Within the European Union there are languages with a centuries-old history which are neither national nor official EU languages but which nonetheless often have many speakers living in different regions in a variety of Member States. In those regions, such languages sometimes enjoy official status and in certain cases they have a number of speakers, a literary tradition and a vitality comparable to those of national languages which enjoy official EU status, even though the latter may actually have only a similar or even a smaller number of speakers.
In view of the fact that respect for linguistic diversity is one of the EU's democratic and cultural foundations (as acknowledged in Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights: 'The Union shall respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity') and since – in accordance with the EU's values – it would therefore be wrong to discriminate against a language merely on the grounds that it is not spoken throughout a Member State, does the Council not think that the EU should take greater account of the realities of such languages?
The Spanish Government has already submitted a Memorandum calling for the language arrangements within the EU institutions to be amended in order to accommodate Spain's co-official languages. What attitude is the Council likely to adopt in response to such a request?"@en1
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"Subject: Linguistic diversity in the European Union"1
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