Euskara

In the face of the attacks on the Euskera, the youth organization Ikama wants to bring the importance of education to the front line with today's strike, calling for "a model of its own, Euskaldun and quality".

EBB Secretary Maitane Ipiñazar said in Euskadi Irratia that the decision calls into question the Euskera normalization law itself.

The initiative to amend 15 State laws shall make it possible to validate texts in Basque, Catalan or Galician without the need for translation.

At the last plenary session of the year, the proposal for a law brought forward by the Members of Parliament of ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Lukashenko, BNG and Mes per Mallorca and Comunes will be discussed. The objective, among others, is to approve documents in Catalan, Basque and Galician throughout the administration, without translation.

The PSE-EE parliamentarian Pau Blasi has stated that his party sees "normal" the consultation that the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country will hold with the Constitutional Court on the law regulating linguistic profiles in the public sector of the Basque Country. "This is not the first time it has happened and we are waiting for what the Constitution says," Blasi said in response to questions from journalists in the corridors of Parliament.

"This is a qualitative leap, serious and negative, but we are reassured that this law is legal, so the Government will present allegations," he told the media.

"On the contrary, we believe that it may also be an opportunity because the Constitution could change the jurisprudence, in this case providing legal cover for the Euskera, but that remains to be seen, and given the magnitude of this outburst, it is very optimistic," said EH Bildu's Secretary of Political Action .

The Basque Government welcomes what has happened with concern and surprise, considering it to be a decision that calls into question the very framework for the normalization of the Basque Country in the public administration. 

The Euskaltzaleon Plaza Libre platform in Bilbao, GUKA, has brought together hundreds of people in the capital city of Bilbao, who have called for the Basque language to be lived in all the neighborhoods of Bilbao and have called for the paralysis of the Castilian language machinery.

Josu Amezaga, of the UPV/EHU research group Nor, explains in the Basque Parliament the presence of minority languages on audiovisual platforms. He warns that in European countries , English content predominates , "often over the official language of the country." The presence of minority languages, "however small, is better in countries with awareness."

Euskera Day is celebrated from town to town with playful and vindictive activities, such as mintzodromos, small groups of people who gather to speak in Basque on all kinds of topics.

"A language is alive if it serves to convey emotions, knowledge and culture," the lehendakari said on Euskera Day, adding that languages "preserve and protect traditions, stories, scientific knowledge and ways of seeing the world."

A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.

EiTB Dataren analisiak baieztatu du euskal hezkuntza-sistemak D eredua finkatu duela aukera nagusi gisa, baina beste datu bat eman du argitara: ikasleek ez dute euskara hein berean erabiltzen eskola-inguruetan eta jolastoki eta espazio informaletan.

The EiTB Data report published on the occasion of Euskera Day shows that 45% of the inhabitants of the ACV are Euskaldunes and that the language has grown considerably in Álava and Bizkaia, although the daily use of the Basque language is not yet predominant, especially in the capitals and large urban centres.

The Bilbao City Council, as part of the celebration of the International Euskera Day, has paid tribute to the Zea Mays group for their great contribution to the Euskera. Esker has been received with this emotion and has stressed that for another 30 years they will be singing in Basque around the world.