June 2006

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THE CATALAN EURO MP, BERNAT JOAN, CALLS FOR A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE POLICY WHICH DOES NOT DISCRIMIATE NON-OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE UNION

June 2006 - On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights, Bernat Joan, MEP for Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and Parliament's rapporteur on the Commission’s Communication "A new framework strategy for multilingualism", will explain his views on the subject and how the parliament should encourage the European Union to adopt a linguistic policy based on genuine multilngualism.

The press conference, which took place the 6 of June, followed a meeting of experts in the European Parliament earlier in the day. Among the participants there was Aureli Argemí, President of CIEMEN and Director of MERCATOR-Linguistic Rights and Legislation as well as Mònica Sabata from the Monitoring Committee of the Universal Declaration on Linguistic Rights and EBLUL. There was also present Miquel Strubell, from the Open University of Catalonia and Coordinator ADUM project and Vicent Climent-Ferrando, from Linguamón – The house of Languages, a Catalan Government iniciative.