The Belgian courts are investigating the facts reported in the criminal complaint presented by Plataforma per la Llengua based on an expert report which reveals that various members of the NGO have had their mobile phones infected with cyberespionage software

Because some of the spying victims live in Brussels, we have been able to take the case to the Belgian courts, which will have to investigate whether the Spanish State has ignored the legal procedures for tapping telephones in other European States, and demand that it identifies those responsible for the espionage  

Spying on the Catalan NGO is a violation of the individual rights of people who have made a voluntary commitment to defend the Catalan language, and it proves that language continues to be one of the Spanish State's main battlegrounds More info about "Plataforma per la Llengua makes a criminal complaint against the Spanish State for spying on us via the mobile phones of members of our executive board"

The summit had four working parties that included experts on each particular topic

The participants visited the gipsy community in the higher part of Tarragona and the Altafulla castellers, and were able to enjoy cultural tourism in both places More info about "Catalonia hosts the annual meeting of FUEN’s Non-Kin-State working group"

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"

Futbol Club Barcelona, the Barcelona Medical Association, Intersindical Valenciana, the Balearic Island trade union STEI Intersindical, the employers' association CECOT, Girona Chamber of Commerce and the political parties Junts and ERC are among the latest to give their support

The organisations complain that the lack of official status mean "Catalan is discriminated against in legislation" and "the rights of Catalan speakers are contravened", and they want to take advantage of the fact that the Spanish State will take on the rotating presidency of the EU Council in order to achieve official status for the language

The promoters of the manifesto are calling on organisations to lend their support via info@oficialitatara.cat, and they encourage citizens to support it on the website More info about "More than 60 organisations back the manifesto urging the Spanish Government to make Catalan official in the European Union"

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"