However paperwork summarizing this week’s assembly of the bloc’s ambassadors, seen by POLITICO, point out critical doubts concerning Madrid’s bid.
Whereas Belgium, Cyprus, Portugal, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia supported granting EU recognition to the Spain’s extra official languages, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden backed Italy’s calls for for “additional readability on the prices and authorized implications of the transfer.”
Madrid has vowed to foot the invoice for the possibly tens of millions of euros so as to add the languages into the EU’s translation and interpretation framework. However Sánchez’s promise has not swayed all his colleagues within the Council of the EU.
Two EU diplomats, granted anonymity to debate the confidential proceedings, confirmed the break up among the many two teams of capitals.
EU international locations opposing the transfer are involved in regards to the influence including official languages might have on the bloc’s backside line. The EU presently spends greater than €1 billion per yr to translate all EU legal guidelines, proposals and selections — previous, current and future — into the bloc’s 24 official languages.
It’s unclear how way more money could be required to include Spain’s extra languages into that group. EU international locations are skeptical that Madrid would choose up these prices indefinitely.
