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It’s official – Welsh in Europe!

By jillevans

I’m so pleased! From this week Welsh speakers will be able to correspond with the European Commission in Welsh.

It’s been a long campaign, but on Thursday, when the UK’s Permanent Representative to the EU signs the memorandum in Brussels, it becomes official.

Its another step forward in boosting the status of Welsh at European level and raising the profile of Wales.

Although it’s fantastic news that Welsh speakers can now deal with the European Commission in the language of their choice, I won’t be stopping here. When the new president of the parliament is elected next week, I’ll be meeting him or her and continue to push the European Parliament to adopt better rules, allowing further use of the language.

This entry was posted on July 8, 2009 at 6:13 pm and is filed under Cymraeg, European Commission, European Parliament, Wales, Welsh Language. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “It’s official – Welsh in Europe!”

  1. alan Says:
    July 8, 2009 at 8:40 pm | Reply

    Gwaith da

  2. D Thomas Says:
    July 8, 2009 at 9:12 pm | Reply

    Da iawn ;-)

  3. Cibwr Says:
    July 9, 2009 at 10:23 am | Reply

    And we know it’s you wot did it. Not the other lot now jumping on the band-wagon.

  4. Xavier Says:
    July 16, 2009 at 11:33 pm | Reply

    Congratulations from Galicia! Good work.

  5. Arfur Says:
    September 23, 2009 at 5:24 pm | Reply

    And how much is this going to cost the taxpayer?

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