Spain links the official status of Catalan, Basque, and Galician to the EU enlargement process

On September 5, in Madrid, the Spanish government urged the European Union to approve the official status of Catalan, Basque, and Galician. Madrid warned that it will not accept the inclusion of any new official languages within the ongoing EU enlargement process unless Spain's own regional languages are granted official recognition.

The demand directly links the domestic recognition of Spain's co-official languages to the broader European Union expansion framework, conditioning future linguistic additions on the approval of Catalan, Basque, and Galician.