Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'More Catalan: those who work and those who set fires'

There is a very important meeting in Paris today at 4pm. French President Emmanuel Macron has urgently summoned the heads of government of Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland and Denmark, as well as the President of the European Commission and the Secretary General of NATO, to the Elysée Palace to see what Europe's response is to the announcement of the The United States to open peace talks in Ukraine without Ukraine and without Europe: Trump-Putin talks in Saudi Arabia. Today's meeting was called after the speech given in Munich on Friday by US Vice President JD Vance, who left European governments in a state of shock because he said that Europe's problem was not Russia or China, but the lack of courage of European governments in the face of immigration and the defence of traditional values, exactly the same thing.

It must be understood, therefore, that the world has entered a new era in which Trump's US breaks the relationship it has had with Europe until now and which has been going on since World War II, which may include the withdrawal of troops, especially from Germany, where there are 35,000 US soldiers. Putin's Russia can now see how the countries on its eastern border, Western Europe, are militarily weaker, while Trump does not hide that he covets the minerals from the subsoil necessary for the manufacture of digital technology, batteries, military equipment, etc., both in Ukraine and Greenland. The effects of all this on our part? Spain will be allocating more and more money from its budget to military expenses. More guns and less butter.

And since everything is connected, it is not surprising that I have put together two news stories of the day together with this one. Barcelona City Council has published census data which says that only 46% of those registered in Barcelona were born. Those of us who are Barcelona natives are a minority in Barcelona. Since 2000, the number of Barcelona natives born outside of Spain has multiplied by seven and one in four now has foreign nationality.

In this change of faces and customs, in this new presence of South American Spanish in our streets, the extreme right is catching on, having no solution and only pointing out enemies.

That is why the campaign launched today by Òmnium Cultural, entitled "We want more Catalan!" is important because, as you know, there are many people who want to learn it and few places to study it.

Along with those who want to set fire to coexistence to win votes, there are those who work to win Catalan speakers.

Good morning.