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Historical agreement to promote Basque language in Iparralde
02/07/2007
The Basque Government and the Public Office of the Basque Language of Iparralde (Northern Basque Country) signed an agreement to collaborate in linguistic issues. An economic fund of €1,450,000 was fixed for 2007.
The Basque Government and the Public Office of the Basque Language of Iparralde (Northern Basque Country in the French State) signed in Baiona an agreement to collaborate in linguistic issues. Both institutions qualified the agreement as historical, as it makes official an institutional collaboration that goes beyond juridical and administrative borders.
The agreement signed by the Basque Government and the Public Office of the Basque Language will make possible a linguistic policy that promotes the Basque language in Iparralde.
In March a call for projects will be announced, to be financed with a €1,450,000 fund, a fund to which the Basque Government will contribute €450,000.
In 2007 several joint initiatives will be carried out such as the 4th Social-linguistic Survey of the Basque Country and the collaboration in research on toponyms and education.
The agreement institutionalizes a relationship existing since 2003, when the Councilor for Culture signed a first protocol with different French institutions. The recent creation of the Public Office of the Basque Language opens the path to a historical transfrontier collaboration.
A mixed commission will follow up the evolution of the projects. Today's signed agreement will be valid until 2010, but has to be ratified every year.
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