It’s worse in Perpignan, where they’re still going on about 1659.
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I hope you all know that Ceuta and Melilla are not the only Spanish enclaves. Despite what the nutter who wrote the badly spelled bits of the Wikipedia thing says, Catalan-language public education is available and public administration is not exclusively monolingual, and the Generalitat is going to pay for all the street signs to be duplicated in Catalan. This legal study (PDF) by the mayor of Perpignan’s office makes interesting reading.
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