On Friday, the Conference of Regional Presidents was overshadowed by Isabel Díaz Ayuso's disdain for the state's co-official languages. Some media outlets emphasized the Madrid president's conflictive attitude. Cuatro, for example, summed up the headline with "Isabel Díaz Ayuso attempts to disrupt the Conference of Regional Presidents". They also defined his conduct as "a snub to the Catalan and Basque president". To illustrate the context of this situation, they included Salvador Illa's comment in which he spoke of the richness of the country's languages: "Understanding this is understanding Spain," and they described it as "a real dig at Ayuso".

At the time of recording this video we continued awaiting the vote of the 27 EU member states on the official status of Catalan, Galician, and Basque in the EU institutions. At this point, the cards are on the table: the Spanish government, bound by its investiture pacts, has been trying for months to achieve official status, while the PP, which belongs to the party with the largest representation in the European Parliament, try the opposite.

Pilar Manchón (Seville, 1972) is a philologist and computer scientist, and has been the director of artificial intelligence research strategy at Google since 2019. She arrived in Silicon Valley twelve years ago and, since then, her career in the world of computational linguistics has only grown. She has also been a speaker at the Talent Arena, the parallel congress to Mobile that was held in Montjuïc. Manchón's career has not been linear and in a conversationCompanies He explains how he got to where he is now and what the world of AI can contribute to language.

A news item on the ARA website in 2013 advanced: "University graduates will have to prove knowledge of a third language to graduate". The then Catalan Minister of Economy and Knowledge, Andreu Mas-Colell, proposed it so that ''once and for all'' students with a degree would have guaranteed skills in English. A year later, it was specified that ''without a First Certificate level there will be no university degree''. To promote English among students, the Government ruled that year that all graduates from 2018 onwards would have to prove a B2 level in a third language if they wanted the degree. But when this deadline was about to run out, and despite the fact that aid was handed out under the Parla3 programme, universities found that a large percentage of students did not have the required English skills and would not be able to graduate, so they lobbied and ended up getting a 4-year moratorium to apply this requirement. Now, eight years after the announcement and again against the clock, the Government has finally announced that B2 level will not be a requirement for a university degree.