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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - place names]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA["Ibiza", the return]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/opinion/ibiza-the-return_129_5692184.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/c7e1148c-0488-41d0-9d9d-48694d2edb88_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>A shiver of patriotism, pride and deep satisfaction runs down the Spanish spine: Eivissa will continue to be <em>Ibiza</em> in Article 69 of the Constitution. The trumpets sound. It is a great triumph for the Popular Party with the invaluable collaboration of the PSOE, which abstained in the vote to save the result of another vote, the one that has given the green light for the island of Formentera to have a senator from now on. Catalan as a return.They call themselves non-nationalists, but there is no one more nationalist under the sun. They say their heart is bigger than yours because it fits two flags (in reality only one is the right one, and the other is decorative), but their brain must be smaller, because it only fits one language. They present themselves as cosmopolitans and, before they have even learned to say <em>Cesc</em>, they get flustered when the Barça goalkeeper, Joan Garcia, called up to the Spanish national football team, explains, when asked by a journalist, that his surname is pronounced in Catalan.In Vinaròs, the City Council wants less Valencian and more Castilian in the streets and shops. Citizen pressure has prevented it, for now. It is a new reminder that the Sénia is the most watched border in southern Europe. Invisible, but watched. They are the ones who say they are in favor of uniting and not separating, but they separate Catalan from Valencian and invent LAPAO. They affirm that borders are a thing of the past, but they spent decades putting borders on TV3. Anyway, no need to continue; we know them by heart. Fighting them is tiring (and very unequal), but it gives Catalan the status of a reason to live and love.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoni Bassas]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:31:18 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Óscar Portas, president of the Consell de Formentera, celebrating the vote on Thursday in the Congress of Deputies.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Little Hospital of Llobregado]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/opinion/the-little-hospital-of-llobregado_129_5478761.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/9e9c5bd8-2f3c-4b5e-9e8a-71e2e9846ad8_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>Vox has a certain obsession with Catalan place names. We read in ARA that they would be in favor of translating them all in Spanish, but some of them "the language doesn't accept or they sound very bad," such as San Cucufate for Sant Cugat or Ciudad Vieja for Ciutat Vella. The comedian Ramon noted this some time ago.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Empar Moliner]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:59:21 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Ignacio Garriga in Parliament.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vox's mess with place names: from 'Tarrasa' and 'La Seo de Urgell' to a disparate Catalanization]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/vox-s-mess-with-place-names-from-tarrasa-and-seo-urgell-to-disparate-catalanization_1_5477980.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/d91320a4-6e53-4bce-93c6-ed9914766636_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p><em>Terrassa, Figueras, Roses, Cubellas, Girona, Lleida, La Seu d'Urgell </em>or a region like the<em>Empordà. </em>Since its inception, Vox has used Catalan place names in Spanish, although they have not been officially adopted since the standardization that came about in this field following the end of the Franco dictatorship. The far-right Spanish-speaking party continues to use some, especially in the case of Lleida and Girona, but in the last two years, amidst a toponymic mess with several persistent contradictions, it has taken a step back. Thus, it has opted to abandon several Castilian place names in favor of Catalan ones, in a partial Catalanization that coexists with bizarre exceptions. This slightly changes the attitude of an organization that has defended and defends the imposition of Castilian place names in Catalonia, along with the native form, and which has even taken this battle, unsuccessfully, to Congress with <a href="https://es.ara.cat/politica/lerida-lleida-gerona-girona-cruzada-vox-toponimos-catalanes_1_5248081.html" target="_blank">an initiative this term to make Lérida official, but also Orense or San Sebastián.</a></p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Roger Palós]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:00:54 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The Barbastre bypass, a 10.6-kilometer section of the Lleida-Huesca highway (A-22), in a file image]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The far-right party confirms the "volatile criterion" on this issue and recognizes that it is a thorny one.]]></subtitle>
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