Plataforma per la Llengua has made a projection on the facade of Barcelona City Hall to question the commitment of the Mayor, Jaume Collboni, to Catalan and, more specifically, to our language being recognised as official in the European Union.

The question was: "Mayor, will you ask for official status for Catalan in the EU?" and the organisation wants to highlight the role the new socialist mayor can play if he asks the Spanish Prime Minister on behalf of the city to make it possible for Catalan to be recognised as an official European Union language.

In a campaign tweet, the organisation reminds the PSC (Catalan branch of the Spanish socialist party) that official status for Catalan in the EU has been among its electoral commitments on several occasions, and demands the same commitment from Barcelona City Council - a key institution for championing the protection of Catalan in Europe.

Last Wednesday, the president of Plataforma per la Llengua, Òscar Escuder, sent a letter to the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, asking him to take advantage of one of the five meetings of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the EU taking place between then and the Spanish General Election on 23 July, to push for Catalan to be added to the list of official EU languages.

In the letter, the president of Plataforma recalled that the Regulation on official languages has already been amended as many as seven times to add new languages, and added that the Council of the EU confirmed in writing to Plataforma per la Lengua that the Spanish government has never requested the inclusion of Catalan in this list.