There is no need for a war between Castilian and Catalan languages

The Catalan daily regrets the "political upheaval" that has been created in Catalonia by the Spanish Ministry of Education's decree imposing three hours of Castilian language lessons a week, as opposed to the current two hours. "Catalan and Spanish political life is used to useless polemics .... The irresponsibility of politicians who want to oppose perfectly compatible languages should be unequivocally denounced. The minister Mercedes Cabera has said that the decree will guarantee bilingualism. All it is doing is throwing unfounded doubt over the current Catalan education system, despite a report from the Ministry of Education itself that has shown the level of Castilian among Catalan students to be the same as among the other students of the country. This serious lack of responsibility on the part of the government, resulting from prejudice, has been echoed by Hispanophobic reactions in certain Catalan nationalist circles."

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