The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has asked this Thursday by letter to the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, that the Spanish-French summit on January 19 in Barcelona should address the official status of Catalan in European institutions and improvements in infrastructures, the Government has informed.
In the letter, he states that the summit is «a great opportunity» to make progress on these and other aspects that affect the daily lives of cross-border citizens, issues that he considers have not been properly addressed and that deserve an urgent and essential response, in his opinion.
In the chapter of proposals related to governance, he asks for a boost of the Mediterranean Macroregion; a cross-border mechanism to overcome the legal and administrative obstacles that these territories suffer, and support to request the official status of the Catalan language in the European institutions.
On infrastructures, it calls for a boost and concretion of the H2Med project; a common front to recover the original route of the Mediterranean Corridor, within the framework of the revision of the new TENT-T proposal; to promote the new Montpellier-Perpignan (France) railway corridor; to restore and improve the railway connection with Perpignan, and to modernize the section of the R3 from the border to Latour-de-Carol (France).
It also calls for improved cooperation in the health field, and the opening of cross-border crossings «closed by the French government».
According to Aragonès, the Generalitat wants to contribute its knowledge and point of view «as an affected party in all these issues», and therefore urges to work together on all this during the summit.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
