That in practice the new baccalaureate curriculum is not so decisive and that the veto on Catalan and island authors is partially neutralized. This is what Valencian universities are counting on: they hope that their ability to design the entrance exams (PAU), added to a broad interpretation of some articles of the new educational decree, will allow them to avoid the sidelining of Balearic and Principality writers promoted by the Valencian Ministry of Education. This is how members of the Catalan philology departments explained it to el ARA after the recent meeting with the Director General of Educational Planning of the Generalitat, Ignacio Martínez Arrúe.

Up to 205 Catalan departments in secondary schools across the Valencian Community have already signed a manifesto against the proposed changes to the high school curriculum decree, which aim to make the study of Catalan and Balearic Island writers optional. The teachers oppose the Education Ministry's intention to amend the sections of the current curriculum that refer to the unity of the Catalan language and establish the need to study its dialects and literary movements. Specifically, the Popular Party government, in agreement with Vox, intends to remove references to linguistic unity from the document and limit the subject matter to "the dialectal varieties of Valencian" and "the main Valencian authors." This is a key element, given that this document forms the basis from which universities must develop entrance exams for higher education and determine the works that students must know to pass them, a circumstance that, in practice, dictates what is studied in high school.

It was supposed to be temporary, but it will ultimately last longer than expected. Adif has decided to maintain the temporary speed restriction on the Barcelona-Madrid high-speed rail line following a complaint from a train driver, even though early Wednesday morning it announced that service was returning to normal along almost the entire route. However, this is not the only section affected after the Adamuz accident, where the condition of the tracks is being investigated as a possible cause of the crash: sources at La Moncloa (the Prime Minister's office) have reported that speed will also be restricted on the Valencia-Madrid route due to complaints from another train driver. In the case of the section affecting Barcelona, ​​the speed will be limited to 160 kilometers per hour on a stretch between kilometer markers 100 and 178, between Madrid and Zaragoza, out of a total distance of 667 kilometers. This decision was made after a Renfe train driver "complained about the track."

One year and five days later the disastrous woman in the Valencian Country, Carlos Mazón has announced his resignation. He did so in his usual style: despite some points of self-criticism, he maintained the falsehoods he has defended from day one to deflect responsibility for a tragedy that resulted in 229 deaths, blaming state agencies for failing to warn and the Spanish government for the lack of assistance received.

The president of the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL), Verónica Cantó, denounced this Friday that Valencian and the institution itself are experiencing "one of the most critical moments" in their "recent history" and, therefore, calls on society as a whole "not to internalize or normalize hate speech, but to combat it." She said this in a forceful speech during the opening of the 2025-2026 academic year.

Having passed the period in which Carlos Mazón was most questioned, the PP intends to make people forget the crisis over the management of the DANA (National Association of Autonomous Communities) by confronting the Spanish government and stoking anti-Catalan sentiment. The Valencian conservatives have brought their identity-based agenda out of the drawer and, now that they need Vox's support for the Generalitat's budget, are preparing another attack on the unity of the Catalan language: removing Catalan and island authors from the school curriculum.

The Spanish government will rescue the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) and offset part of the 25% reduction in the institution's funding agreed upon by the Popular Party and Vox. This was announced this Thursday by the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities and Secretary General of the PSPV (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party), Diana Morant, at an event organized in Valencia by the Forum Europa Tribuna Mediterrània.

The Valencian Parliament will censure the Spanish Foreign Minister, J. Manuel Albares, "to despise the Valencian," according to reports. announce the Valencian president, Carlos Mazón, who constantly kicks the ball forward, so everyone pushes day after day. However, the new Mazonesque scheme is a particularly twisted (and especially worrying) example of how the cynicism and lies of certain political discourses end up generating what we know as alternative facts: a completely distorted version of reality that aspires to present itself as truth.

Not content with the aggression and self-loathing that the PP displays toward Catalan in the EU, we are now witnessing a contest of cynicism from the Valencian PP toward Valencian. Now it turns out there is a great deal of rending of garments because when they ask Minister Albares why they have not requested the official status of Valencian in Europe, the minister fails to obtain it. Philology solved the answer for him: Valencian is the name that the Catalan language receives in the Valencian Country. If Catalan is official in the European Parliament, so is Valencian. He could even have quoted the definition of Valencian from the dictionary of the Royal Academy: "A variety of Catalan spoken in much of the former kingdom of Valencia and commonly felt there as its own language."

More than 300 writers, such as Manel Baixauli, Martí Domínguez, Ferran Torrent, Mercedes Clemente and Rafa Lahuerta They sign a manifesto rejecting the politicization of the language, as in the case of change of nomenclature from Valencia to Valencia/ValenciaThe text also expresses support for the Valencian Academy of Language (AVL) as the sole regulatory body.

Castilianization and anti-Catalanism are advancing in the Valencian Community with the PP and Vox. Change the regional law to define the city as a Spanish-speaking areaNow the Valencia City Council has approved a request to the Generalitat Council - the body that assigns the official names of the municipalities - to admit as official "the bilingual denomination", That is, the forms Valencia (with a closed accent, to mark the usual pronunciation) and Valencia (without an accent, in Spanish) instead of the traditional form, Valencia, as established by the regulations. The PSPV-PSOE and Compromís have opposed it.

Within the framework of a constellation of paranormal sociolinguistic phenomena, on June 26, the Alicante City Council plenary session approved urging the Valencian Parliament to modify the linguistic zoning established by the Law on the Use and Teaching of Valencian (LUEV, 1983). The zoning in question—in an unfortunate formulation, it has been said—divided the Valencian Community into two areas of linguistic predominance based on historical criteria. It should be noted that this criterion—hotly debated at the time—had less to do with the demolinguistic situation of the 1980s than with the predominant language of the 13th-century settlers. In this way, a zone of (historical) Valencian-speaking linguistic predominance and a Spanish-speaking zone were defined, which proposed a different management of linguistic rights and duties based on the location of Valencian citizens. At this point, I can't help but say to myself that this approach has repeatedly become a thorn in the side of the envisioned linguistic normalization.

Why they chose the word temper?

Vox achieved its objective, and Alicante City Council approved an institutional declaration this Thursday asking Parliament to modify the law on the use and teaching of Valencian and define the city as a Spanish-speaking territory. The request was approved with the votes of the far-right party and the Popular Party, which has not changed its position one iota despite the protests against the measure today.

The judge sees no evidence of a crime in the dramatic fire that left ten dead and completely burned down a block of flats in the city of Valencia in February 2024. The flames left hundreds of people homeless. After investigating the events, Valencia's 9th Investigative Court closed the case and concluded that the fire was an accident.

The Valencian government's Department of Education has developed a guide which guides educational centers on how to apply the new educational law that will come into force next year in the infant and primary stages and on which recently families were consulted. The document is notable for its recommendation that mathematics always be taught in Spanish, and that knowledge of the natural, social, and cultural environment always be taught in Catalan.

99.67% of pre-school and primary school students in the Valencian Community will study in the language chosen by their families during the 2025/2026 academic year. This was confirmed on Tuesday by the Regional Minister of Education, Culture, Universities, and Employment, José Antonio Rovira, who defended his department's respect for the wishes of the educational community. Organizations such as Families for Valencian do not agree, denouncing the Catalan government's violation of the results of the consultation in the classroom, especially in the eight regions where Spanish is the language of choice.

This Tuesday, Vox MP in the Balearic Islands, Sergio Rodríguez, had to have a snack. strong (in Mallorca, they have a snack in the morning, you know that) and he finished his speech at the Parliamentary lectern, congratulating Pedro Sánchez and all the fans on "Victory Day." He was referring to the day of the Victory of the fascist insurgent troops against the democratic and legitimate government of the Republic. You already know what it's about: that statement that said "the Red Army was captured and disarmed", two hundred thousand dead and a forty-year dictatorship of executions and institutionalized corruption. When the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, was urged by opposition groups to call Rodríguez to his orders, and to order that his words not be recorded in the minutes, he simply responded, with a smile." that Le Senne is also from Vox, that he became sadly famous when he tore up some photos of Aurora Picornell and the Rojas del Molinar (murdered by the fascists during the War) and that today he has an ongoing judicial process for these events. He remains in office only because the PP supports him.

This Tuesday, Vox MP in the Balearic Islands, Sergio Rodríguez, had to have a snack. strong (in Mallorca, they have a snack in the morning, you know that) and he finished his speech at the Parliamentary lectern, congratulating Pedro Sánchez and all the fans on "Victory Day." He was referring to the day of the victory of the fascist insurgent troops against the democratic and legitimate government of the Republic. You already know what it's about: that statement that said "the Red Army was captured and disarmed", two hundred thousand dead and a forty-year dictatorship of executions and institutionalized corruption. When the president of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, was urged by opposition groups to call Rodríguez to his orders, and to order that his words not be recorded in the minutes, he limited himself to responding, with a brief." It is worth remembering that Le Senne is also from Vox, who became sadly famous when he tore up some photos of Aurora Picornell and the Rojas del Molinar (murdered by fascists during the Civil War) and who currently has an ongoing judicial process for these events.

The demand for studying in Valencian is growing "spectacularly" and far exceeds the supply of public and private schools. This is the main conclusion of the Valencian Education Workers' Union (STEPV). has compared the data of the consultation on language in the classroom of the Ministry of Education with those of the reports published by the union itself before the entry into force of the multilingual model approved in 2018 and now repealed.