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"Mr President, this afternoon the decision will be made as to whether, finally, the citizens of Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia will be able to address the European Parliament in their respective mother tongues.
I hope that the letters from the Presidents of the Parliaments of Catalonia and Galicia which have been addressed to the Presidency will help to win the respect and support of those people who have opposed what will be a great step forward in terms of bringing more than 11 million speakers of those languages closer to the European Union.
It is just one step, a first step, on the basis of which we will have to move forward towards full recognition of the rights of these citizens, who have made their resolutely European tradition and vocation one of the pillars of their democratic societies.
Ladies and gentlemen, I would also like to make it clear that, when we advocate the use of these co-official languages of the Spanish State by its citizens in their relations with the Union, we are also defending the linguistic rights of all those speakers of languages of the current EU Member States – rights that have not yet been fully recognised in the normal functioning of this Parliament; these citizens have our full support."@en1
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