ISSUE NO. 1666
COSTA BLANCA NORTH
8 - 14 June 2017
YOUR PAPER, YOUR VOICE, YOUR OPINION
Word up! Court backs language law legal claim By Matt Ford VICTORY: For parents. A group of furious parents have scored a major victory in their battle against the Generalitat Valenciana. The regional Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) has stepped in to temporarily suspend the council’s decision to phase out the Spanish language in schools by 2019. It comes after thousands of protesters took to the streets of Alicante and Valencia in recent weeks. A delighted Kristin Tennebø of the Idiomas y Educacion group once again spoke exclu-
sively to the Euro Weekly News in the wake of the landmark decision. “We are going to get this law overturned,” said the Norwegian mum-of-three and lead activist. “This is only the second time in history that (a regional law being suspended) has happened.”
Children face receiving over 80 per cent of classes in Valenciana, a form of Catalan spoken throughout the Valencian Community, under the new rules, which are due to be introduced in junior schools this September with secondaries to follow. Turn to page 4
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