There have been other attempts towards the same goal by other
parties like Batasuna and by Basque language organisms alike.
This decision of the court is applicable in the designated ‘Basque
speaking area’.
This polemical law was passed in the 2000 and divides this Basque
region in three areas according the number of Basque speakers
and establishing different needs in the matters of Basque education
and its use and application in administration. Therefore we can
say that this law didn’t aim the promotion of this language
and created more divisions to those ones already existing politically
and officially in the Basque Country.
This law restricted the use of a language that finds it difficult
enough to develop and maintain in more positive situations especially
in areas like the South of Navarre where the language disappeared
years ago. This law has eradicated the Basque from signs and indications
in an area that already where the Basque language was official,
has been discriminatory with Basque speakers in employment levels,
etc.
The decision is based on the basis that it doesn’t fulfilled
essential requirements like the report of the Navarran Council
for the Basque Language and that one of the General Direction
of the Public Service. It’s terrible that those in the Navarran
regional government implementing such laws are the Navarran conservatives,
the same ones who mention with pride that the Romans knew the
Basque language as Lingua Navarrorum or language of the Navarrans.
They’re not Navarrans – they’re a disgrace.
See http://www.euskalinfo.org.uk/docs/may7.htm
for the Navarran University students’ fight for their rights
of studying in Basque.
This is the web-page where Miguel Sanz (president of the Navarran
Regional Government) and its party UPN are ridiculed because of
their attitude towards the Basque language:
http://www.geocities.com/miguelsanzsesma/
