The Petitions Committee of the European Parliamenteo will debate this Monday the Use of Spanish in the Catalan schoolin a citizen lawsuit defended by the group Assembly for a Bilingual School.
its president, Ana Losada, will argue before the European Parliament that there is a “discrimination against Spanish speakers in the Catalan educational system” and the MEPs will discuss the possibility of a education in Catalan and Spanish, in equal parts.
The Assembly for a Bilingual School also asks that public or concerted centers offer the teaching in both languages instead of insisting on linguistic immersion in Catalan.
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The Petitions Committee is the parliamentary body that deals with demands from European citizens and, where possible, offers out-of-court alternatives to these concerns. It studies the petitions and channels them through the European institutions, demanding in most cases more information from the institutions involved or to investigate the reported cases.