Junts will denounce in Europe the "marginalization" of Catalan in the regularization of migrants

BarcelonaAfter demanding the tightening of criteria for the extraordinary regularization of migrants in Spain, Junts goes a step further against the measure approved by the government of Pedro Sánchez and from which half a million people will benefit. Carles Puigdemont's party has announced that it will take the regularization to Europe because it "ignores the requirement of knowing Catalan". The party has commissioned its legal department to prepare "the presentation of a complaint before the European institutions for the violation of various directives and the marginalization of a co-official language as an integration criterion", as detailed this Friday in a statement.

the language "be taken into account" for this procedure. Likewise, the juntaires accuse the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, of having "deceived" Catalans for having said that he wanted Catalan to be a "requirement" when regularized migrants face the first renewal of the residence permit. The Government, in reality, only proposed that the language "be taken into account" for this procedure. But the juntaires retort: "[The executive] Once again demonstrates that the existence of a Department of Linguistic Policy is just a pure facade and that agreements like the National Pact for the Language are mere paper".

Carles Puigdemont's party also denounces in its statement that the regularization is causing a "serious collapse of municipal services" in Catalonia. "It externalizes all problems to the town councils, which are overwhelmed, without funding and administrative capacity to address this process with guarantees", they criticize, and announce the start of a "political and institutional offensive" to "reverse" the problems they point out in the regularization, including "legal actions" in Europe, although they do not specify which ones.