The same day that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) backed the 25% of Spanish in classrooms, Barcelona brought together the main experts in linguistic diversity in an international forum organized by Linguapax and financed, precisely, with European Union funds. One of the speakers was the Welsh sociolinguist Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones, president of the European Language Equality Network (ELEN) and director of the Centre for Welsh and Celtic Studies, who knows the Catalan case in depth – and, moreover, also speaks it.

Catalan is not progressing adequately in Europe. With its claimed official status in institutions set aside – one of the conditions ERC, and especially Junts, imposed on Pedro Sánchez to invest him as president – the forceful arguments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) now arrive, endorsing the obligation of 25% Castilian in schools, as defended by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).

Catalan language advocacy organizations, led by Òmnium and Platform for the Language, are preparing for a ruling by the Constitutional Court (CC) that would dismantle the legal response constructed during the previous term, with broad consensus, to prevent the imposition of a 25% quota for Spanish in schools. In 2022, during the Aragonese government, a decree-law was passed that prevented the application of language percentages in education (under the pro-independence majority at the time). A law, which in this case also received the support of the PSC (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) and the Comuns (Comuns), established Catalan as the vehicular language and established the use of official languages in education. The law appears likely to pass the Constitutional Court, but not the decree-law, which was more explicit in rejecting the 25% quota and could give the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) the opportunity to continue its offensive.