Plataforma per la Llengua proposed Altafulla to host the annual meeting of this working group of FUEN, one of the main networks defending national and language minorities, and it will act as the host organisation

The meeting will be held on the first and second of June and its main theme will be the presence of minority languages in public services and new technologies More info about "The European network FUEN chooses Catalonia to host the meeting of the Non-Kin State working group of nations and minorities without a state"

The Administrative Court of Montpellier, in a supremacist decision, has ordered that French should take precedence over Catalan

Our organisation urges the French government to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) and to make Catalan official in Northern Catalonia, calling for international protection against this violation of language rights  More info about "We denounce the fact that the French judicial system has relegated Catalan to secondary use in municipal council meetings"

Marc Guevara, technical manager of the education and universities department of Plataforma per la Llengua, sets out the language emergency situation of Catalan, especially among young people, and explains the situation of the language in schools

The fifth annual meeting brings together representatives of many linguistic minorities and makes it possible to learn about the education system for Germans in Romania and the challenges raised for national minorities by the new Romanian education law More info about "We deplore the emergency situation of Catalan at a meeting of the education group of the European network FUEN in Transylvania"

The initiative formed part of the Kensington Book Day Festival backed by the Government of Catalonia's office in the United States and Canada, in cooperation with Plataforma per la Llengua

The presentation gives figures on the vitality of the language and denounces the minoritization it is suffering at the hands of Spanish, French, Italian and European institutions More info about "The exhibition “The Catalan language: 10 million European voices” arrives in the United States for the first time"

The Alliance for the digital presence of Catalan, presented this morning, is being promoted by Plataforma per la Lengua and nine other organisations and has the support of the Government of Catalonia

The Alliance's goal is to promote the presence of the Catalan language throughout the online world and combat the loss of importance of Catalan results in internet searches More info about "We are promoting an alliance of organisations to increase the presence of Catalan on the Internet"

The president of Plataforma per la Llengua, Òscar Escuder, has sent a letter to the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and to the European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, to denounce the organisation by Dolors Montserrat of an event today at the European Parliament opposing linguistic immersion, taking advantage of her position as president of the petitions committee (PETI)

In the letter, the organisation calls on Metsola and O'Reilly to act in defence of the rights of Catalan-speakers and to halt the partisan use of European institutions by Montserrat More info about "We call upon the president of the European Parliament to stop Dolors Montserrat's attacks against Catalan via European institutions"

The resolution, presented by Plataforma per la Llengua, has been approved at the General Assembly of the European Language Equality Network, held in Cardiff at the weekend

The text condemns the complaints made by the prefecture of Pyrénées-Orientales against Elna and Els Banys d'Arles town councils for allowing members to speak in Catalan at meetings of the full council on condition that their speeches were translated into French More info about "The ELEN network asks the French State not to persecute councils that allow full meetings to be addressed in Catalan"

Maria de Lluc Muñoz, Plataforma per la Lengua's international officer, takes part in a round table on Spain's language minorities together with representatives of the Basque Country and Galicia

The round table was organised as part of BeyondSpain, an alternative to the Frankfurt Fair which this year had Spain as a guest country More info about "We condemn Spanish language supremacism at the Frankfurt Alternative Book Fair"

Òscar-Adrià Ibàñez, head of the language rights unit at the Catalan NGO, attends the 66^th Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), one of the main organisations defending national and linguistic minorities, in Berlin

The FUEN assembly of delegates agrees to ask the Spanish authorities to recognise Catalan-speakers as a linguistic minority and to take measures to recover the levels of use of the Spain's minority languages

The resolution makes six specific proposals and will be sent to the Spanish government More info about "The FUEN network admits Plataforma per la Llengua as an associate member and approves a resolution critical of Spain"