Catalan News

22/02/2025

30 groups urge government to create 80,000 new Catalan course places

Campaign calls for more Catalan in "every neighborhood, school and workplace" amid declining usage

Campaign calls for more Catalan in "every neighborhood, school and workplace" amid declining usage

21/02/2025

🤩 What's on this weekend in Barcelona and Catalonia

🎶 Abba, Queen, The Beatles: Royal Film Concert Orchestra & Dj Symphonic

🦖🦕 ExpoDinos

🚴📽️ BCN Sports Film Festival

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From concerts, exhibitions, festivals, and family-friendly events, there are always plenty of things to do in Barcelona and its surroundings

21/02/2025

"Real integration into Catalan society must include learning Catalan," says Francesc Xavier Vila, language policy minister

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https://www.catalannews.com/politics/item/political-upheaval-pushed-catalan-language-to-the-backburner-says-minister

21/02/2025

🎥 | Reconstructing a 10th century castle

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https://www.catalannews.com/culture/item/medieval-olerdola-castle-reconstructed-in-alt-penedes-region

21/02/2025

🗣️ | Politicians, including the president and opposition, as well as other social actors react to the decline in the use of Catalan, calling for action on the "linguistic emergency"

Knowledge of Catalan down slightly: 93% understand it, 80% can speak it, 84% read it, and 66% can write it

21/02/2025

Political upheaval pushed Catalan language to the backburner, says minister

Francesc Xavier Vila: "Real integration into Catalan society must include learning Catalan"

Francesc Xavier Vila: "Real integration into Catalan society must include learning Catalan"

21/02/2025

🇺🇦 | Ukrainians urge high turnout for Sunday's protest in face of 'loss of support' from US

Community backs Zelensky after Trump's attacks: "He is protecting the country"

Community backs Zelensky after Trump's attacks: "He is protecting the country"

21/02/2025

🏰 | Medieval Olèrdola Castle reconstructed in Alt Penedès region

Site served as a strategic point on the border between Al-Andalus and Christian territories

Site served as a strategic point on the border between Al-Andalus and Christian territories

21/02/2025

🛍️ | Tougher fines for Black Friday violations as 77% of shops investigated break rules

Prices cannot be raised ten days before discount campaign and then reduced, consumer agency warns

Prices cannot be raised ten days before discount campaign and then reduced, consumer agency warns

21/02/2025

'The Catalan language: the soul of Catalonia'

Today, for International Mother Language Day, check out this article from the Catalan News archives

If you wonder where and when it came from, how many people speak it, and where you can learn it, then read on

21/02/2025

🚫 | Barcelona's Eixample district bans pub crawls from June 1

Pub crawls have been outlawed in city's old town since 2012

Pub crawls have been outlawed in city's old town since 2012

21/02/2025

🗣️ | Use of Catalan declining, now the first language of less than one-third of people

Knowledge of the language also down slightly, while number of people who say they use Catalan and Spanish equally up

Knowledge of Catalan down slightly: 93% understand it, 80% can speak it, 84% read it, and 66% can write it

21/02/2025

🎨 | Barcelona's Palau Martorell opens city's first exhibition on Fernando Botero

Exhibition highlights Colombian artist's "extraordinary versatility"

Exhibition highlights Colombian artist's "extraordinary versatility"

21/02/2025

📲 | Catalonia considering banning mobile phones in classrooms and restricting screens to children

Education department sets up Commission for Responsible Digitalization to evaluate use and effects of digital devices

Education department sets up Commission for Responsible Digitalization to evaluate use and effects of digital devices

20/02/2025

📎 | Catalan business leaders have called on Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for more investment in strategic infrastructure and a reduction in excessive bureaucracy

Spanish PM meets with 13 Chamber of Commerce presidents

20/02/2025

🤝 | Catalonia is committed to strengthening all policies to promote the learning and use of Catalan, President Salvador Illa said in Brussels on Thursday.

"The game is still on," Illa said, a day after the publication of a major survey on language use in Catalonia showed a decline in the number of Catalan speakers.

Salvador Illa vows to reinforce language policies after meeting with president of the European Council