A row erupted in Spain on Tuesday over the government's plans to
extend the teaching of Spanish in schools, with Catalan separatists
and Basques seeing them as an attack on their rights. Education
Minister Jose Ignacio Wert wants Spanish to be "sufficiently"
available everywhere in Spain as the main teaching language for
families which choose it.
North-eastern Catalonia currently favours Catalan, while Basque
schools offer different combinations between Spanish, Basque and
English. Catalan Prime Minister Artur Mas, who is defying Madrid with
plans to stage a referendum on independence, announced a regional
party summit against what a spokesman termed the Spanish cultural
"offensive."
The Basque caretaker government said it would take legal action
against the reform, which it saw as violating regional powers. The
October elections ousted a Socialist government in the Basque region,
which is about to get a new government headed by the PNV, a Basque
nationalist party with separatist currents. Wert still needs a green
light from parliament, where Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's
conservatives have an absolute majority.
http://en.europeonline-magazine.eu/catalan-separatists-protest-against-spanish-language-plan_253002.html
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