A few weeks ago I wrote about Col·lectiu Emma, a group of Catalans living in different countries who try to set the record straight on news items published in the international press relating to different aspects of the Catalan economy and society. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of their [...]
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The Catalan Government, through its Minister of Culture, Joan Manel Tresserras, has long been working on a new law to make it possible for Catalan citizens to choose whether they want to watch a film in Catalan, Spanish or in its original version. Nowadays, 89,3% of film projections in Catalan cinemas are in [...] The Spanish Government is playing the victim when it comes to making Catalan a normal language in Europe. As Ireland did with gaelic, Spain could simply ask the Council of Europe to accept Catalan as just another official language in the Union. The petition would need to be unanimously approved by all member [...] Good news came yesterday as the Catalan version of Google Books (a search engine for digitalized books) was officially presented at the National Library of Catalonia (BNC). More than 35.000 books from the National Library have been digitalized within the framework signed by both parts in 2007. By this agreement the National Library [...]
The Catalan Wikipedia has now more than 175.000 articles. The Catalan Wikipedia (Viquipèdia) is growing steadily both in number of articles and quality. If just a few months ago surpassed the 175.000 articles, now it has obtained the third place in a ranking that evaluates the excellence of the Wikipedias [...] |
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