ERC maintains that Catalan "should be fully official in the EU" and be able to be used "in all areas."

The president of the ERC (Republican Revolutionary Party), Oriol Junqueras, argued this Saturday that Catalan should be "fully official in the European Union." Speaking to the media at the Caracol (Catalan National Assembly) in Lleida, Junqueras emphasized that Catalan has "many more speakers than languages that are already official."